Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A Town Called Hypocrisy





Quite a famous song..but also it is something that i see everyday..

if u noe me well enough, u noe that i just HATE hypocrisy..if u say 1 thing, u better do it..no 2 ways about that..of course there are given circumstances..like, u promise to meet me at 1pm, but arrive at 2pm, n u got caught in a jam..that is fine..

the sad part of it all is that I myself practice hypocrisy, n i guess that is why i look soo lowly upon myself..sometimes it is just convenient for me to just be a hypocrite..makes my life sooo much easier..

so in a step to try to figure out how to overcome hypocrisy, 1 is to just dont say anything at all, or state ur morals and values, so that when u do break ur morals or go against it..no one can look down upon u..

well, after stating that, one starts to question, "is hypocrisy just not doing what u believe in or is it creating a false belief in other people?" the answer does seem a little obvious, but if u think about it a little more, u realize that if someone believes that the latter is entitled to believe so..because if u think about the meaning of hypocrisy, it CAN or MOST LIKELY involves another party other than urself..it can be you, and your friend, u and God or something like that..

so yea, if u dont say anything, or have very loose morals or is indifferent about most topics, then you cant be called a hypocrite cuz there is no first grounds to base ur actions on..i've observed this from ppl like ben, who have kept things to himself, and when u see him do something that is uncharacteristic, u cant go to him and say "HA! you hypocrite!" (i asked ben and he is fine with me using his name, however he would like to state that the reason he keeps things to himself is not to avoid hypocrisy but for other undisclosed reasons)

i do use that strategy to avoid hypocrisy, where if u notice, i word my sentences in such a way that i am ambiguous, and cannot be quoted, for example, if im supposed to meet u somewhere, i will say "k, i will reach roughly at 1pm" or "I MIGHT reach at 1pm"

the problem with this strategy is that ppl have morals and values, even if they dont want to..and of course ppl have the innate desire to talk and say things to sound like some superhero to try to be on other ppls good side..k, to lessen the confusion, I say im a punctual person..but i arrive late for a lot of events..y do i say im punctual? so that other ppl who hear me say that would think highly of me..

i guess another strategy is to embrace the fact that u are a hypocrite..well not all the time of course..but at least it does give ppl a fair warning about u and your actions..but if only the ppl were that simple..

yet again, sorry for such a messy post..i actually kinda like forced myself to post this, cuz it was high time for me to post something..dont get me wrong, i did want to write about this..it is one of the highest things on my list i wanted to post about..just that i cant think of wat i really want to say now..will edit it when i do think of wat i really want to say..

Cheers

2 comments:

Josef said...

hahaha, i know wat these posts r like, when u think of writing it u have a lot of grand thoughts, but when u finally write it u cant remember wat u were goin to write

DaMan said...

haha..yea..exactly..the intensity of the emotions in writing this post causes u to not do it how u want to..