Hey please handle my phone carefully it's 30 thousand bucks.
I got a new bag just for 4 thousand
What would you know, have you ever been in an international flight?
Well I don't care if it's 2000 I'm buying it
Yeah! I know these chola tastes great but it's nothing like what I had in Dubai, when I visited it, Dubai! I visited , Dubai!
Who shows off Visiting Dubai right? Dude I've been to Australia and I must tell you I'm not gonna show off about it. Even though I stayed in a 5 star hotel and travelled business class.
He's obviously rich look at his spects, atleast 8 thousand it must be, Ray Ban
Sounds familiar? Is it you or the guy next to you ? Ever heard any of these or said something like this?
In the age of advancement we live in, we're somehow programmed to stereotype people based on the money their parents have Or the place where they belong to or the language they speak.
And I'll be lying if I'd say I'm not a part of this vicious instinct of stereotyping people.
And who are we kidding we are all money minded people. And everyone's showing off the money they haven't even earned and in some cases money they don't even have.
I wasn't finished learning all the Hindi words yet and somehow NOT knowing Hindi is the new status symbol. A very much known class of people who feel superior to others just because they don't know the language of their own nation.
Well, if you look closely to a typical conversation between people whether its a couple of friends, lovers, or colleagues you'll find a real life Santa-Banta joke. Each trying to demean other showing off or just disagreeing to what one says. A conversation at work is basically a highly encrypted exchange of information/view/opinion which would be framed very precisely as it passes on from one ear to another.
Whether you're in school or college or office or in a train or at a bus stop, the truth is you're being judged at every moment. The way you stand, walk , talk, your ideas, your dress up and we are all a part of this we pass our judgement about someone based on the way we want them to be.
From the age of 18 to 28 all sorts of problem most of us have could be solved with money: How to get a girlfriend? How to get into a decent college? How to buy Royal Enfield? How to earn more money? How to feel good about oneself?
Yes! the answer to everything from the day you start living to the day you die: Big Bucks
And then you grow up and realize now the question is; Do you have money?
And the answer ironically is another question: How much?
From showing off the money you haven't earned you end up showing off the money you did earn. Or in some cases it's just a legacy passed on.
But are we meant to do this? Or in the fear of losing the race we think life is we just find ways to make ourselves feel better.
When you have to sit in a cubicle for an entire day with nothing to do you start observing people, their actions, reactions, and what not.
And you start thinking all sort of crap.
Is this going to change?
Or is it the way it's always gonna be?
And then you look at your family, relatives, friends, their family and their friends, and random people walking on the road and random people sleeping on the road,
And realize...
It's never gonna change.
P.S.- That's what a motivational speech to earn money and start working hard sounds like.
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