Just a Thought

In today's times, you are seen as incompetent if you are socially awkward. People get suspicious if avoid talking to them. They stare as if you have some clinical problems. You are ill. Much of our mainstream world has indeed flourished around extroverted personality. If you can make conversations, If you are good at short talks, If you have people skills, good for you. Corporate culture thrives on such traits. After the industrial revolution, introversion became something that needed to be overcome. Every parent wants their kid to talk fluently in front of relatives. Carry an upfront gait. And if you don’t then parents get a negative impression of the kid. Sometimes such negative impressions have life long consequences for that kid. Mr. Robot Introverts are seen as an anomaly. As if they are the consequence of some random disadvantageous mutation. As if we have lost to the play of evolution. Often extroversion is confused with Intelligence. They seem more reliable. It ...

It's often true that a mask makes people more comfortable in themselves, they have fewer insecurities and in some cases, they even get the courage to speak their mind. Because the symbol of our existence, the representative of our personality and identity is our face. Not your leg, Not your stomach. It's your face. That's what you are to people. People may ask of your name everywhere, but it's your face that they attach your name with. Our embarrassment, jealousy, happiness, and sorrows are best projected by our facial expressions. You hide your face when you don't speak up on the stage. And when people get to mask their faces, they become less self-conscious, their insecurities vanish. They get more comfortable with themselves. A mask doesn't hide you it reveals you. It is a strange paradox. Light Yagami The story of Light Yagami has a similar reality but more dangerous. It's dangerous because Kira is not just a mask of Light Yagami but Kira has power as we...

"Hi Heroes! This is Stan Lee coming at you. I want you to know. Marvel has always been and always will be, a reflection of the world right outside our window." Fictional stories are not just meant to be in the pages of a book or in the scenes of a movie. Sometimes these stories resonate deeply with our own lives. And this is obvious too. After all, who writes these stories? Another human being, right? Next time when you read a fictional story or see a movie, try to also read about its author. You will realize how that story is influenced by the author's own experiences. We actually get to share the perception of the author in any story. While the Harry Potter series is a magic world, its also so much about the life and desires of J K Rowling. The movie characters are also influenced by real-life situations. Even the superheroes. When Batman appeared in comic books for the first time, America was going through the great depression. Urbanization was growing fast along wi...

When we talk about a fictional character, be it a superhero, a normal person or even a villain, how influential that character is in your life depends on to what extent you can relate to it. Because if you don't relate to the character well, then all its qualities which inspire you, you will not try much to imbibe those qualities in your own life. That character will remain just an inspiration for you. You will never aspire to be like him. So the question is what type of characters aspire us? And how do we relate to them? Well, we don't relate to a character when we like their qualities or they have the same ambitions as us or when we are influenced by their power and strength. We relate to any character well when they have the same weaknesses as ours. When our mistakes are the same. When he is also as limited as we are. Because then you realize that he doesn't have any more advantage than you have. And only then we are able to form a strong connection with that chara...

Sherlock Holmes is considered to be one of the greatest detectives of the fictional world. And it also had a huge impact on the stories written thereafter especially if it’s a detective story. The idea of Arch enemy, the forensic lab where you verify the truths which our impaired cognition can’t and a not so intelligent friend to stand beside the protagonist. this is not to say Watson is dumb, just not as intelligent as Sherlock. And what goes on in the mind of the world's greatest detective is truly fascinating and mind-boggling.   But If you have read Sherlock Holmes's stories or even watched his movies or TV series, then you must have noticed how Sherlock calls his methods 'elementary'. That these are the basics. The way he interacts with the surrounding reality and approaches things, it can be learned, if we practice enough. “If I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual, after all”....