Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Rainbow People!!

Have you sometimes wondered why people behave the way they do – either good or bad or sometimes, both? I have and so I thought I would write a post on some very interesting people I have met so far.
 
As mom and I watched a Tamil serial “Ethanai Nirangalin Manitharkal” (How many shades of humans), I used to wonder why people do good and bad things to others and sometimes to themselves. Many of these characteristics are transmitted from parents, friends and people we meet in the professional and non-professional world, but some of them exist in our genes by birth.
 
Over the short span of my life, I have met good-hearted, selfless people who would never do harm to anybody like my mother, father and my best friend, Narendra and many others. These people make me believe that if you do good things to others, somebody down the line will return that favor. I have learnt a lot from these people and try to follow their footsteps.
 
To compensate for these good people, I have met certain curious characters, whose main purpose in life is to keep disturbing people, to plot against others and make sure that they create an environment of distrust. In trying to understand these people, I happened to read a few books and also had spoken to some of them. I understood that some of them thought they were doing well to others while others knew that really manipulated people to their advantage. I certainly would not forget two dark shaded characters who have crossed my life for they made me understand the importance of meeting good people.
 
The third group of people are the most amusing ones. They are neither bad nor manipulative, but get manipulated easily. A classic example is a person I know who thinks he has a very good childhood friend but does not understand how his friend uses him to get his work done.
 
So finally I tried analyzing how many people from these groups I may have met and kind of ball-parked on a percentage of 60% good people, 5-10% curious characters and the rest in the easily manipulated state group.
 
All these three groups of people with different shades of characteristics form the different colors of the rainbow. I hope that, as I traverse through many different places and situations in future, I get to meet the only good people. Not all wishes come true or do they?