Meet the Faker

Today, I met a friend who was cheated and hurt by a person, who easily fit into the ‘harmless’ category.

You give your trust. Believe in that person. Let go of your security net. And one day, kaboom… you don’t really know that person. Yes, let me introduce you to ‘the faker’. This faker is genderless. And he or she will even pretend to the dumbest person of the world. Harmless, you say? They are silent most of the time. Biding their time to wham you, when you are least prepared.

Have met my fair share of fakers. From big talking sales executives to people who have not hesitated to ‘kill-off’ their non-existent father!

Bizarre and extreme, isn’t it? I guess this automatically qualifies me to write this.

You can’t really identify these fakers. But you know you are out of the zone when a person goes out of the way to sound naïve or ignorant. Just watch closely at the behavior right after the solution is announced. If he/she sucks up to you – Say hello to faker!

They are full of drama. Every single incident of their life is large and too huge for them.

Another proven point is the old Chinese saying, “A person who discloses only his/her bad times is a bad friend to keep.”

So thank you my ex-fakers for those hard lessons.

I finally left my friend with the thought that “If you want to cheat someone, it’s the easiest thing to do.” He needed to be told that trusting another makes us human. And in no way is he guilty of being stupid - the lowest low of being a human.

Beauty

There are moments when my entire life so far, all that happened, all those people who touched my life, flashes in front of my eyes…

First of all, those moments in itself are not in seconds, it stretches on like an ocean of time. For me, it is like lying on my back on the grass and watching the night sky… or watching the autumn leaves letting go… or my grandmother’s hands and the way her skin seemed like soft paper. So many days, yet only so few moments.

I guess I could be pretty pissed-off with the wrongs that happened, but it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much of beauty in this world.

Sometimes I feel like seeing it all at once and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax... and try not to hold on to it. It flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude… for every single moment of my stupid life.

May be you won’t have an idea about what I am talking about. But don’t worry. You will someday.