Living life in clichés??!

You grow up listening to your parents describing a group of people, categorizing them, identifying them with a particular quality/ies........and you listen, you try to understand, you try to figure why......why are they being so mean about these bunch of people??! So what if they are loud?! What if they are proud? What if they live their lives a certain way? What if they are promiscuous?! What if they follow certain customs we find weird?! Why do we have to discuss about them? Why do we have to question their ways? Why do we always assume that our way of living is the "right" way?! Why are we so suspicious and judgemental? And you think you have seen your parents in a whole new light.......This is our introduction to the world of clichés........and as an young child, I promised myself that I would never ever indulge or allow myself to even be in the presence of such clichéd talk!

But as you grow up, you are exposed more and more to these clichés and you turn deaf to these talks by concentrating on your latest crush and dreaming about their gorgeous, made-up body!! But slowly and slowly you listen if reluctantly and resisting with all your pocket money's worth!!.......and you see patterns.....you see conclusions.....you see deductions.......you see sense being made........after listening, you tell yourself that you would never objectify anyone to these clichés......no matter what! Come what may..........never.......nada..............not happening!!

Then you see that group of people, the ones that they were talking about......the clichés put forth......and then you observe......and then you protest........you refuse to let your brain see those glaring, obvious flaunting of those very qualities discussed..........and you notice.......you fit the pieces into the puzzle.........you curse yourself for being so dumb that you didn't realize this before!!........then you begin to draw your very own clichés........before you know it you have become you what you said you wouldn't.......you have done what you swore you would never do........with a crashing realization you have "clichezised " people.......damn.....damn.....what ever happened to your ideals??!

With changing times, the vocabulary, the qualities and the conversations changes........we now refer to them as "typicalness"........but hey, there are a lot of categories to gossip about.......to analyze.......traditional.....modern......both of which have many categories including gender, region, lifestyle and behaviour!!........then there are the new ones like nuclear families, younger generations, older generations, happy, depressed, moody, pessimistic, optimistic,............and so on and so forth!!........

If you are wondering why I am so antagonistic towards clichés, it is for the simple fact that once you identify a person as belonging to a certain category, you become blind to their other qualities.........you only see the very qualities that you categorize them under!!........and even if you open yourself up to them.......you are surprised when you are exposed to something other than what you expect!! And then it hits you.......you have been unceremoniously segregating people.......and they never asked for it........they never expected themselves to be!!..........

You realize you are in the middle of crossroads.......and its time to make a choice..........either you continue to divide people into these clichéd families and close your eyes to the possibility of them being something more or open yourself up to the infinite possibilities of the way a human being can be, irrespective of their gender, region or traditions or a million things!!..............so, which path have you picked?!