When you are in awe of someone, you like them, you love them, then most of the things that person does becomes the basic definition of what is righteous in this world. You start believing in what they believe and start seeing things the way they see. You change your perspective, your beliefs and even your morals according to them. And this transformation will be so smooth and subtle that you won’t even be aware about it or even if some genius learns about it he/she won’t mind it. But there will come a time when you will encounter someone who will challenge this person’s authority. And you will have to compare the two and even if you realize that this new person is right you can’t let go of that person you are in love with. You can’t just let go of it. How can you? You have the same beliefs as this person. You think alike. You are the same now.
They say the “Mother is the first teacher”. Everything you learn till you grow up to become an adult is for the most part, is taught by your parents. So you inherit your parents’ ideology and you start looking at things the way they see things, you start thinking like them. Now, I can’t believe that everyone in this world is good natured, so there might be a few “evil” people out there who are making their kids evil too. So, is it ok to question your parents judgment every once in a while or is it like every Hitler’s son should go on to become a Nazi. I think that it boils down to what your perception of “Right” is and how you change it from your experiences in life.
Before starting this discussion I want to state that I am a big fan of Sachin Tendulkar and I am not trying to criticize him here. Sachin Tendulkar, the GOD born in India, Idol for every Indian (probably every person in the world) and the humblest man on the planet. My question is would we have regarded Sachin so highly or believed in whatever Sachin did if he wasn’t this famous and we weren’t looking upto him. Would we still believe that Sachin Tendulkar is the GOD born in India?
If you guys have the least bit of interest in football you must have heard about Manchester United (Man Utd) and if you would be a little more interest (or interest in shitty bollywood gossip) you must have heard about Cristiano Ronaldo. I am a Man Utd fan (or atleast I claim to be one). Cristiano Ronaldo used to play for Man Utd. And believe me this guy was good, he was very good. He scored a hell lot of goals for Man Utd too. But this guy had his antics, everything from being cocky, taunting referees and opposition players to diving (a type of cheating to gain unfair advantage in football) on the field. If you put me with a guy like that in a room one of us would end up dead (probably I have got this perspective now since he changed his club). Still everything he did was ok with me because he got us a hell lot of trophies. And in the summer of 2009 he moved to Real Madrid (a football club in Spain) and everything changed. He is still an awesome player. Just that now I can see through those antics and to put it in short I don’t like him as a person. It is also due to the fact that he left the club that made him everything he was, nurtured him from being a boy to the man he became and gave him all the fame. Does that make me a hypocrite? Or is it human nature to look up towards the light even when you are surrounded by all kinds of crap?
Zesty.
7 years ago
