I am Buddha!

“How immature!!!”

           I often exclaim... How immature! I find people talking too much, immature... I find shy people, immature... People who have an opinion about everything, are immature.... People who have opinion about nothing, are immature... But no, not everybody is immature if that's what you are thinking, I think.

               I have my own set of people I get along with. I have friends with whom I share a frequency. I have even come across people I feel are better than me at many things. Not only that, but I even have idols. Yet, I find many of them unbelievably immature. It's O.K.  What bothers me is this...

             A few days ago, when I was talking to my friend Neha, she made a really stupid remark on Indian cricketers and I laughed at her like I hadn't laughed in ages. When I find people immature and their thoughts, ideas and talks stupid, I have an expression of awe on my face.. I often laugh at them, criticize them.. Sometimes I even ask them where they got that stupid idea from. It probably makes me feel wonderful... Makes me feel superior... 

               Yesterday, when I went to a friend's party who was leaving Bangalore, I met a set of new people. There I met this girl, Neha, almost my age, may be a year or two younger to me... We had a discussion on how the Deepika Padukone’s video on women empowerment is a need of the time and only such things can influence and change the mind set of people.. As a Deepika Padukone fan I even appreciated her thoughtfulness in bringing out her ideas through this video. Deepika Padukone is a an amazing woman and realizes her social responsibility, is what I thought and told Neha.

            She looked at me in awe and said, “Not Deepika's but Vogue's. What exactly does the Vogue magazine do? Why was it marketed. Well, if you must know, since its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York aristocracy, establishing social norms in a country that did not value class and ceremony as much as England or France. Firstly, it is a commercial which you mistook for a message. And now, Vogue wants to ‘empower’ women, in India, that too by a 2min 30sec video. Seriously??? And you thought it was the ‘socially responsible’ Deepika Padukone…”

            She laughed just like I would laugh at others when I found them immature or stupid!

            We often do this to people around us, don’t we? We make fun of them, laugh at them, and ridicule them; because we ‘feel’ that we are better than them. At times, we even realize that there are a couple of things which they know or do, better than us. Very intelligently, we shut up at that moment and let it pass, to hold on to our superiority.

            To find anybody stupid and immature, is OK but do I have any right to mock at someone. If yes, then probably I am Buddha. I have reached that levels of maturity where there is no one who could find me immature. I am an epitome of perfection.

            But, if that is true, then I wouldn’t indulge in sarcasm and wouldn’t make fun of someone who just expressed his or her ideas. I would rather, correct them if I am sure they are not right and guide them, help them to learn better. It is better to let someone laugh at your tears rather than laughing at someone till they have tears.