This post deals with an issue I have always thought about and on which one Mrs Rand had/has (dono alive or not) strong opinions too....
What is the value of one's word nowadays?
Bemused? Amused? Unmoved?
Well lemme explain. Right from strangers (eg. politicians ..... papachi elru baythaare avrna).... to ppl with whom u live/interact daily, everybody knows how to make a claim or a statement or a promise but don't know how to live upto it. I know this is a rather too weak an argument made over n over for centuries together by now but what i do not understand is when they make that stmt/claim do they not ANALYZE their own stmt they are making and hence are at fault unintentionally (lets see abt that!) or are just saying some fucking piece of shit jus to get away from you? (oh these ppl deserve a free entry to a firing line)
Look at some examples I have collected (ppl reading this, these are real world examples that i've encountered and i dont care)
"Yeah lets have a trip next time no coffee day meet"
"I'll be there in another ten minutes"
"Yeah sure we'll go to that movie tomorrow"
"I only need to use this for next half an hour"
"It'll take no time to go there.... just around the corner"
............... many more
Now i feel WHAT the fuck is the problem for people to RIGHTfully TRUTHfully say "I need this for (not HALF HOUR) but for the entire day"..... "It'll take approximately 1 hr to go there... its some 10 K from here" etc etc.... Atleast u dont kill a part of urself after LYING like that....
For people who have no malice underneath (why do u think ppl lie? to get their job done right? ), i jus feel they lack estimation ability and should not mess other ppl up with that talent!
Your word is taken seriously and is valued by ppl.... Unless u dont want other ppl to STOP doing that, watch ur tongue !
1 comment:
Hey... what all you have written, I dont consider them as lies at all. As you had rightly put, they are result of lack of proper estimation. Give ppl a chance to be wrong! No one can be perfect and give you perfect estimations, I bet even you cant! I tell the problem with you.. you want everything perfect.. dude chill. there is nothing like that, many can come very close tho (Like me :P)
Anyways, I have felt the same things you are feeling, but the correct way out is dont take everything said to you seriously.. give ppl a chance and some room to be wrong.. you will not feel this bad when they actually go wrong :)
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