I AM SNEAKY AND PROUD OF IT ! ARE YOU?
Much have been debated and said about mindsets, whether changing one, debating about the merits of specific ones,or speculating about the reasons why specific ones exist. With a mind boggling arrays of teachers, gurus, motivational books and programs out there, there is one thing we can all agree on and that is there is no one single answer as to what makes the perfect mindset. However I am adamant that there is a common thread that runs through all our mindsets and that is “We are all sneaky!” Yes I am sneaky and so are you!
Now I must have ruffled many feathers by this claim. I can hear many of you say “Now just a minute, I’m never sneaky!” Well , let’s put it to the test shall we?
Can you remember a time when you are in lift, a party, a crowded meeting room, the train, the mall or any public place, dressed to the nines, maintaining your ultra slick persona when this happens.
A bubbling of gas in the tummy heading desperately to the nearest exit of your rear end. This motley crew of remnants from breakfast, lunch or dinner, have a mind of itself, desperately seeking independence from your body. You have no choice but to succumb to its will unwillingly but silently ! Desperate to destroy any association with this stinky crew,you headed for the opposite direction or simply just wrinkle your nose and act politely surprised as if you are being attacked.You keep looking around hoping no one caught on that you are the original bomb maker. In the process perhaps an innocent bystander who can’t act as well as you or get away as fast from the crime scene as you, gets to bear the brunt of many accusing stares. You are relieved. It’s better him than you. After all no real harm was done. Just a little old fart and a bit of a social embarrassment caused.
Shame on you! You were sneaky. Welcome to the human race. Be proud that you are only humanly sneaky. Wear the badge proudly for it makes you human.
Now there are some ultra sleek and cool homo sapiens who have taken sneakiness to a whole new level. I am referring to those who manipulate, plot and connive to do wrong to fellow humans while putting up a self righteous front. Now these are the ones who should be truly ashamed and should hide and slink slowly away from the rest of us mere mortals. Or maybe I should be more forgiving of this special tribe of sub homo sapiens because perhaps they just a bunch of misunderstood folks! If I have sounded harsh, forgive me for I am just human.
Before you take offence, let me say that I have the privilege to encounter one at work recently. Yes you heard me right! I did say privilege because his antics present a perfect opportunity for me to challenge my own principles and mindset successfully.My choice of response to his antics reaffirmed my stature as human being in good standing and taking myself to a higher level of evolution. For this I extent my thanks. Because he is not, I now know I am.I shall continue to wait to be able to welcome him back to the fold of us homo sapiens once again.
NOW HERE’S TO ENJOYING A LITTLE BIT OF SNEAKINESS
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I am sneaky, but I am doubly sure I am not born like this.
So, the question we have to ask ourselves where have our baby innocence gone to? Were we born with this sneakiness or were we born of innocence? Were we, as children, like an empty vessel having the capacity to be filled with norms that could be different from our natural forms? Do we do things that are the norms but we feel uncomfortable as these are not naturally our forms, and yet we do them to please others rather than our own? Were we forced to learn these norms when our vessels were empty, filling up with sneakiness to conform, and in turn, we teach these to our children making them lost their innocence?
So, to the question of whether I am proud to be sneaky lies in the fact whether I am comfortable to do so against our natural self or do I seek that comfort by conformity to the norms? Am I aware of what I am before all these exposures and peer pressures or do I pretend to be what I am not! Am I a Master to myself or am I a Slave to others? Should I be proud of being myself or should I be proud by being not?
We are born with everything : positive and negative. No innocence was lost, it just took a backseat and allow it’s opposite half come into the limelight.
Think about it this way - What that don’t exist,exist so that what that is can be!
We were not born positive or negative, but neutral. All the plus and minus only comes in during our growing up years and how the mold is caste is how we are formed. Only, there are certain traits in us which we are born with, and like you wrote they took a backseat overshadowed by our molded selves.
So, what that don’t exist, exist so that what that is can be is a conflict we face everyday going against the flow!
A mentor of mine made me realize this at a time when I was really stuck. Attitude is what determines the outcome of our experience and ego is what that drives attitudes.
But ego is also what makes us beings with conscious minds. Without ego, there can never be any differences amongst the human race, and even the animal kingdom magnifies that tenfold. Both attitude and ego can determine the outcome of our experiences and can we really separate the two and say which comes first?
I think we all have been the victim and/or culprit in this senario. Gave me a good laugh. Thank for the ost