Many lives, one master.
You know if u r only reading this blog without meeting me, you will probably think of me as quite an introspective person. A very serious type. Very intellectual rather than physical. Well, you'll be seeing me in a different way than people who see more of me offline.
People who have known me since school days see me as a shy chilled out person who's a bit conservative n boring. People who know me from college also know me as somewhat shy, but they see me as a rebel - someone who's unconventional and daring. And also as someone intelligent. People who know me from my MBA, see me as a motivated person with a lot of interest in extra-currics, and good organisational and leadership skills. And also intelligent, though not as much as my college friends.
Well the truth is that I am all of these, and much more than that. I am leading all these lives at the same time and all of them are me and yet none of them are me in totality. Its like the 8 blind men who try to doscover what an elephant looks like. All these people see me with respect to my relationship with them, and who I was at the time we got together. With a lucky few I have managed to move out of the person I was earlier and become a new person with them who is more in tune with me now. I think those are the friends who will stay with me for a life time.
So what is the point of this blog? Well, its basically to tell you that this is not the real me that u r getting acquianted with. This is just the blogger in me, who is not at all like say the lover in me or the child in me or the father in me.
Speaking of which, I am really eager to discover the father in me. Will I be as perfect a dad as I imagine myself to be? Will I be my childs best friend, will I be able to give him enough space for him to learn on his own, and yet not isolate him?
Well, there are many more lives that I will live through the different me's, but they will all have the same master - me.
Now this last line was a deliberate effort on my part to give this blog a good ending. Dear reader, please tell me if it was a good way to end this blog or if I can end it better.
People who have known me since school days see me as a shy chilled out person who's a bit conservative n boring. People who know me from college also know me as somewhat shy, but they see me as a rebel - someone who's unconventional and daring. And also as someone intelligent. People who know me from my MBA, see me as a motivated person with a lot of interest in extra-currics, and good organisational and leadership skills. And also intelligent, though not as much as my college friends.
Well the truth is that I am all of these, and much more than that. I am leading all these lives at the same time and all of them are me and yet none of them are me in totality. Its like the 8 blind men who try to doscover what an elephant looks like. All these people see me with respect to my relationship with them, and who I was at the time we got together. With a lucky few I have managed to move out of the person I was earlier and become a new person with them who is more in tune with me now. I think those are the friends who will stay with me for a life time.
So what is the point of this blog? Well, its basically to tell you that this is not the real me that u r getting acquianted with. This is just the blogger in me, who is not at all like say the lover in me or the child in me or the father in me.
Speaking of which, I am really eager to discover the father in me. Will I be as perfect a dad as I imagine myself to be? Will I be my childs best friend, will I be able to give him enough space for him to learn on his own, and yet not isolate him?
Well, there are many more lives that I will live through the different me's, but they will all have the same master - me.
Now this last line was a deliberate effort on my part to give this blog a good ending. Dear reader, please tell me if it was a good way to end this blog or if I can end it better.
posted by philosopher stoned | 6:08 AM
2 Comments:
when i write stuff at times i stop and think how would a particular person react to this if he/she were to read it. is it the same with you? when you wrote this, were you thinking of anyone in particular? that would give an interesting twist to the whole thing.
i think eventhough the last line comes in rather abruptly, it still ties the whole piece together. i understood what the title meant and i finished with a sense of completeness. gestalt i think its called.
i liked this one
Even though later blogs are addressed to specific people, in this one I just decided to get a bit intimate with all my future readers. And also cos I was planning to use this blog as a tool for dating, so I wanted my future potentials to know more about me and wanted to tell them not to take me to be the person writing this blog.
The title of this one was also inspired by a book of the same name.
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