Meet Omi....

I have tried 6 different things – cleaning my room, having soup, arranging the shelves, reading a book, doing some literature review (read: empirical study), analysing a case on transhipment for a competition – all in the past 15 minutes! Clearly, I am confused (what an oxymoron!). Eventually, I decided on the 7th activity, put an entry in my blog....

Let me introduce you to Omi. Omi is like you, well sort of. Omi tries to be everything to everybody; he battles with what he is and what he wants others to perceive him to be. Quite like yours, his problem is that he doesn’t know either of them. At times, he thinks why people try to bundle ten different people into themselves, all the while publicizing that they are unique. And more so, why does he do so. He knows for a fact that beneath the armour that he has built year after year around him, there is a man, who is much like anyone else; who wants money, who wants to come back to a beautiful family, who wants to enjoy every moment he is alive and at times cares a dime about anyone beyond his circle of love; someone who wants to live by own, simple rules which also include no rules at all.

Yet at several different times of the day, Omi is defending himself against all that he is. His sense of right and wrong slowly develops into There-Isn’t-Anything-Right-Or-Wrong. Things are gray. Suddenly, deeds do not define morality, intent does. Then, after a point, he begins to ponder over the true meaning of morality. And he shoves the thought aside like you would to a newspaper that has only bad news on the front page and looks away. He knows his defences are lowering when he says, “that’s what I truly believe in”; yet he saves it for the closing line of his debate. He chooses to ignore taking a stance on dubious events. These are signs of his armour melting, signs of him showing the real and simple him.

What is Omi doing right now, where is he? Is he writing a blog, is he reading this blog? Is he trying to shirk some reality bits from this too? Come out of the dissonance Omi and show up!! Show the world the REAL you, for you don’t really have to be the hero, the unique one or the chosen one; you just gotta be genuine and that works!