Life has funny ways of proving us wrong. I had always considered myself a intelligent person. Rather i had considered myself a knowledgeable guy. Until i went outside India. At first i was at all a loss on what to do. Things just didnt seem to fall into place. Either i googled or read the instructions to the S. Slowly i did learn and it was fun. But to be in a new culture gives you different angles to the same thoughts. And as i was sitting in the airport waiting for my departure i suddenly had a realization.
It was about the human mind. If you try to disclose something from it, the more it wants to know about it. Its not just about events and thoughts. Its also about what we see. If you try not to show it a pen, the more curious it is to see the pen. If you know about a pen, have heard about it and talked about it with your friend a million times and yet never seen it, the urge could become overwhelming.
Now we dont have any restrictions on looking at a pen. But the funny part is we try to cover skin. I mean not out of logical reasons but more out of culture and social issues. This means that skinshow is a funny thing. Its not really a good thing as per society. Now applying the same logic as the pen the urge to see skin and more of it becomes overwhelming.
And so a lot of events in a guy’s life is driven by the allure of skin. Make any, and i mean any, girl wear small clothes and see the effect. She would attract stares and turn heads. Its funny. The same person would never be noticed if wearing the usual clothes but in this case the whole panorma changes. The allure of skin is so high in real!
And yet when i was hear the first few days my head kept turning left and right. I mean i hardly saw anyone not in skirts and stockings. But by the end of the week it had become usual and it wasnt a big deal anymore. My head didnt turn to stare anymore. And so i realised that more than small clothes being something bad in actual is more like a social filter bred into us since birth.
The more it is open, the more it becomes unimportant. The allure of skin can be overcome i guess if you keep your mind open!
The best line – “If you try to disclose something from it, the more it wants to know about it.” And yeah true, its not just about the thoughts, but also about what we see. The urge to see can be overcome by seeing, but the same is not the case with thoughts…the urge to not think about something can be controlled only when we get what we want.
Nicely written 🙂