ARE WE WHAT WE ARE?

Today’s world seems to believe that the more hypocritical you are; the more successful you are. While many tend to appear good, genuine and trustworthy before us, we often try to prove ourselves before them that we love, care and respect them. But when it comes to real life situations are we really what we appear to be or should we conclude as Iago says in Shakespeare’s Othello, “I am not what I am”?

And, for me, hypocrisy is nothing but the distance between our ‘being’ and ‘doing’; the greater the distance, the higher the vice.

Hypocrisy is definitely a close ally of individualism and therefore destroys community life. I do believe that the greatest enemy of community life is not ‘sincere enemies’ but ‘insincere friends’.

It is high time that we ask to ourselves, how much genuine are we? Are our expressions true? Do we smile to others outwardly while we smile at others inwardly? Are we two-faced? Do our ‘doings’ reflect our ‘beings’? In short, ARE WE WHAT WE ARE?