Monday, July 28, 2014

Yet another problem?

"You have a problem, you know"

Going by the number of times my friends have said this, I must be as full of problems as a mathematics test paper. I can even digest that aspersion but what I find difficult to take is their utter confidence that they have the solutions to all of my problems when they have found it impossible to solve their own. But then, I suppose, it works something like exams have worked for me. I always am certain about the solutions to yesterday's physics paper while I am struggling to even understand the questions in today's exam. You are always more certain of the solutions to the problems that you do not have to address.

"You never see what is wrong with you. Yesterday, when Arvind was turned off by your comment, you called him ultra-sensitive and did not even bother to check whether you had yourself been rude."

Ah! It really gets my goat when idiots presume to talk down to me. Does this chap not even realize the simple thing that, if I put the fault on Arvind, it absolves me from having to do anything to change the way I behave? I mean, what sort of fool will check for his own faults when identifying them would put the onus of correcting them on himself?

"The other day, when that wise man was giving a discourse on how the attitude of selfishness would reduce the quality of your own life, by vitiating all your relationships, you started talking of the Guptas ought to realize their problem. Did it never strike you that the discourse was meant for each person to look into himself and assess his own behavior?"

This guy is a certified lunatic. What else could one call him when he could not even see the inherent inconsistency in his own statements? Here was a discourse about not being selfish and he is blaming me for my unselfishness in wanting the Guptas to benefit from the advice, and advocating that I, instead, stuck to selfishly benefiting from it myself.

"You always blame problems on others. Never seek to see whether there was any problem with you or with your own behavior. How will you ever learn to improve? Externalizing the reasons for the problems you face will never lead you to any lasting solution"

WHAT a man! So, when he started off with 'You have a problem', he was merely externalizing the reason for the problem. No need to bother with his advice.

Maybe I need to give him advice - Physician, heal thyself!

16 comments:

  1. LOL! This is a good way of looking at things.. pinpoint at other people's problem and call yourself unselfish and one who cares about others for that :P
    Now I have a reason to give each time I point my fingers at someone. Psst Psst... I always make it a point to point all five fingers, lest someone comes and says don't point, when you do that, the rest of the fingers point back at you :P ;)

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    1. AND I fold all my other fingers into the palm of my hand :)

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    2. Ah! Why did I not think of that before?? :P Guru Sureshji ki jai ho!

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    3. Never knew it was SO easy to become a Guruji :) I could have become one at school :)

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  2. Howlarious post, was laughing my butt off the whole time I read this post. You sure have a way of getting your point across, don't you !!!

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    1. Thanks, Jairam! It is so wonderful to hear that both the humor AND the point worked

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  3. Ha Ha. Once again a topic we have discussed. I remember you mentioning you were planning to write this one.

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    1. Yes :) Normally my posts are about things I feel strongly about :) Naturally, they reflect both in my conversations and on my blog :)

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  4. I think, when people say, "You are selfish", they actually mean - "You are clever and hence it's difficult to cheat you." :P

    Destination Infinity

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  5. Now, isnt that so true. We always tend to look at only others when we have to pin the blame on somebody.. How many times has any person - politicians, leaders taken the blame on themselves when things go wrong. Humor with some hard truths woven in beautifully, as usual Suresh.

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    1. I try, Ash, I try! It is lovely to hear that I succeed sometimes.

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  6. when it comes to 'others', we will on pick on each fault scrutinise it and relish the scrutiny. Where the 'self' is concerned we shall blanket it with " if i had no faults i would have been God!" and dust our hands away.

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