Saturday, March 17, 2007

Hear No Evil...

When a person lives in a society,especially a highly electric one called ISB, eternal curiosity about everyone except himself/herself creates or originates something that we all call as gossip.

Ofcourse the main aim of gossip is that it is meant to be heard by the person about whom everyone else is talking about, and this would be achieved with a high level of well wishing and dropping the word in the right ears.

The thing about gossip is that, the target person, when he hears that people are talking about him, might react in a few typical ways. He(she/it) might rave and rant and make it known to whoever gives even half a ear , that it doesnt bother him a bit ....and then go home and rant /rave some more...

Or he might adopt the famous counter attack stance, and start a rumor about every single person he meets that day...

The third type, my favorite type, is the person who strongly believes that 'If you cant beat 'em, join 'em ' , and whole heartedly goes about reinforcing every single rumor...

Well all these are good options....infact they are in increasing order of effectiveness of taking care of those innocuous whisperings, but then most of the people somehow end up doing the fourth and the worst thing that anyone can do.....that is denying them....

The denial mode in most activities of life, like love, hate and rumors, is the worst reaction to anything, and is a vicious cycle....which we can call the curse of the first denial...

So guys and gals, don't deny.....join in the fun......

2 comments:

Jayesh said...

Hey, you write nice posts. Accidentally stumbled upon them via orkut.

I couldn't figure out what ISB stands for. But it was nice to hear you read Hitchhiker's (I read it once, but will have to read it many more times to enjoy all bits).

I liked this particular post, for no particular reason. But your choice of words is interesting.

Keep blogging...

Cheers!

P.S. BTW I am Jayesh (the one from your DJ batch ;)

Rujuta said...

Thanks Jayesh...
ISB stansd for indian school of business..
ya, hitchhiker's grows on u...the more u read it the more u'll like it :)

btw, wassup wid u....