Is imitation essential?
 
While typing out this piece, I realised that all my recent blogs have been exuding philosophy. Maybe I have become a little more critical these days, and the same stirred the radical self in me to pen for my blog. But ignoring the radical part, this is more about seeking a lot of questions from my folks.

Firstly, why on earth is it essential to paint myself with a kg of makeup, when I am just headed out for family lunch or maybe a normal day at the office? I don’t mean to offend fellows, but does this mean that we are incomplete in ourself, and have to seek assistance from some foreign (or indegenous) brand that puts my self confidence at stake?

Apart from that, I feel the biggest folly in the system is that common folks like us fall prey and we often indulge in imitating, rather binge imitating. Consider this. During team meetings, there is this super confident flamboyant woman who has an awesome diction. Everyone is intimidated by her presence, and finally people start imitating her. Suppose she pronounces ‘anti’ as the Americans pronounce it, as ‘an-tie’. All through their life, people have pronounced it as ‘anT’, like you pronounce the alphabet ‘T’. And now there is this anglicized American pronunciation.

Are we not proud of our own selves, or our own culture, that we would adopt that of someone who isn’t even known to us at a personal level? Then again, we start dressing up like people around us, and that we get affected by little remarks.

My questions here is that - Are imitations really that important, whereby you put your own self esteem at stake?

Shall await your reply.