The Tree of Euphesims...............:
i doubt if many of us realize the shade we live in...the comfort of standing under the tree of Euphesims, shielded from the sunny glare of reality...look at me for example..i explain myself and everything ive become in one easy word- 'underchiever'...i cn see u grinning but comfortable isnt it..? its a lot better than saying, to use a word off the top of my head, loser...or failure..'underachiever' kind of carries the promise of ability...'underachiever' sez ur pretty smart n u havnt achieved what u ought to given ur talent..we all do it..v pick up one of these tags along the way and stick em on our foreheads n become it..we believe it, and it kinda becomes true for us...when i hit twelth grade and my grades started slipping once the need for hard work and actual preparation came in ( a dyslexic can perform above average till twelth grade without much effort), i looked around and found one-'underachiever'...nice..just right for my ego, to let me lounge in my lethargy without pricks of consience...i 'chose' not to be competitive..i have the brains...but it was too ordinary...i can even go so far as to interpret it as the eccentricity of a genius..a brilliant mind who wanted not the cheap thrills of mundane competition, but the secret pleasures of high thought and epicurian living...underachiever..its a security-blanket... a nice one...but now im wondering..those 2 dreaded words that put u on the treacherous path to self-discovery..that bastard road to perdition, if i may.."what if?" what if i had tried? what then? would i have come out any better than average? of course..! really? well, hey im doing the world a favour really..surely theres too many poeple rushing about without a second to "stand and stare"? surely i come as a breath of fresh air in this MBA-obsessed nation..? this land of self-promoting chest-thumping mr.which-IIM-should-i-go-to-oh-god's...? an iconoclast, an anarchist..? a rebel..?
if you say so, but 'what if?'...hmm, un uncomfortable question..so unaccustomed to discomfort, me..where's my couch of excuses..? i need to relax...i had a long day...
"you wont understand who they thought i was supposed to be...
look at me now, im a man who wont let himself be..."
-Down In A Hole, Alice In Chains
i doubt if many of us realize the shade we live in...the comfort of standing under the tree of Euphesims, shielded from the sunny glare of reality...look at me for example..i explain myself and everything ive become in one easy word- 'underchiever'...i cn see u grinning but comfortable isnt it..? its a lot better than saying, to use a word off the top of my head, loser...or failure..'underachiever' kind of carries the promise of ability...'underachiever' sez ur pretty smart n u havnt achieved what u ought to given ur talent..we all do it..v pick up one of these tags along the way and stick em on our foreheads n become it..we believe it, and it kinda becomes true for us...when i hit twelth grade and my grades started slipping once the need for hard work and actual preparation came in ( a dyslexic can perform above average till twelth grade without much effort), i looked around and found one-'underachiever'...nice..just right for my ego, to let me lounge in my lethargy without pricks of consience...i 'chose' not to be competitive..i have the brains...but it was too ordinary...i can even go so far as to interpret it as the eccentricity of a genius..a brilliant mind who wanted not the cheap thrills of mundane competition, but the secret pleasures of high thought and epicurian living...underachiever..its a security-blanket... a nice one...but now im wondering..those 2 dreaded words that put u on the treacherous path to self-discovery..that bastard road to perdition, if i may.."what if?" what if i had tried? what then? would i have come out any better than average? of course..! really? well, hey im doing the world a favour really..surely theres too many poeple rushing about without a second to "stand and stare"? surely i come as a breath of fresh air in this MBA-obsessed nation..? this land of self-promoting chest-thumping mr.which-IIM-should-i-go-to-oh-god's...? an iconoclast, an anarchist..? a rebel..?
if you say so, but 'what if?'...hmm, un uncomfortable question..so unaccustomed to discomfort, me..where's my couch of excuses..? i need to relax...i had a long day...
"you wont understand who they thought i was supposed to be...
look at me now, im a man who wont let himself be..."
-Down In A Hole, Alice In Chains
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