People

Its been a while since I've posted, but studying in uni, does not leave too much time to keep an ongoing diary/news column. Hence, the gaps in posts.

Moving on, past couple of weeks have shown me so very many different things about people, its altogether strange and interesting, mysterious and alluring, enchanting and frightening, all combined into one elegant mixture. People can never be figured out as individuals. I'm not sure who said this but "As individuals we are intelligent, yet as a group we are stupid". That was his reason for democracy never being able to work, but it is also my support for being able to figure out how certain groups of people behave.

Its so very easy to spot, the difference between day scholars and hostelites, between hostelites from Karachi, and those from other areas, and then you can jump into the groupings that form through subject specialisation, CS, ACF, ECON, LAW, SS, MATH etc. And you would probably think what is so damn special about that statement. And the truth is nothing really. Its what you do with information, and how you use it. Knowledge is power. Being able to predict to some extent how a particular group will react or respond, gives a tremendous advantage in resolving fights, taking care not to offend somebody unintentionally, and other secrets which I will not display, since its hard-earned knowledge. :P
Hard-earned you ask? Well, by hard-earned I refer to difficult experience, reality checks, truths which are ugly but still true nonetheless, the 'mystery of life' kind of stuff.

Yes, and such an event occured recently, wherein I chose to swallow my pride, go against the very principles I have stood for and thought I would never abandon, where I protected people and lied to them at the same time, because they were unaccepting of the truth, an event where it went against every fibre of my being to give them an alternate truth which would keep their fantasy spinning and not cause them pain. People do not generally like the truth, and the harbinger of that truth is the one who suffers. Its like breaking the aqueduct because the water that flowed through was murky instead of potable. Alas, it is a difficult world we live in, a place where hypocrisy rules as the norm, and being the social animals that we are, conforming to pack mentality, donning a guise which is not really us to be a part of something we are not too comfortable with but still must go on living in and of course, cutting out people who do not share your view(s).

By now, you probably think what kind of shit happened to actually make me say all these things, and perhaps, in due time, I might tell you.
Until then, good night kind sirs.