Will I be named as ‘Different’ when I say – Sorry, I don’t follow you? Or will I be branded as ‘Indifferent’, when I say – I have no attachment with you and I don’t care about you.
If I refuse to follow your advice or do not accept your suggestions or do not wish to be seen in your influence or shadow – in that case will I be designated as ‘Different’ or ‘Indifferent’.
I do the things my way – you like it or you don’t – in such cases, will I be named as ‘Different’ or ‘Indifferent’.
There are many such questions in my mind which keep haunting me and asking me for an explanation.
What if I don’t think like you, I don’t want to go for a walk like you, go for parties like you, go for movies like you, not sleep early or late like you, do not greet every person that crosses-by or make an eye-contact, or what if I don’t like the television programs that you like – in that case – am I ‘Different’ or ‘Indifferent’?
Most peculiar is that I like reading the newspapers from back to front. I don’t like too hot food. I don’t like watching the stressful TV serials. I don’t like talking all the time. I like football and not cricket. Now, am I ‘Different’ or ‘Indifferent’.
The meaning that I understand is – if I want to keep my individual personality, my selfish me and respect me-within-myself, I am ‘Different’. And if I am immune to my surroundings or care a damn about people who are talking good or nonsense about me, I am ‘Indifferent’.
I am being polite in writing this.
I should have written that – if I don’t agree with your point of view, I am besides being ‘Different’ or ‘Indifferent’, also ‘Ignorant’ and ‘Arrogant’.
Why is it that if I don’t agree with your view point and because I know if I follow you, I would be sulking, unhappy, stressful, suppressed and increase my blood pressure; I still need to follow your opinion ? You would in any which-ways give me “Different” names.
I have tried asking this to many people, but the answers come in the lines of -‘you don’t take good advice’ and ‘you listen to none’ – ‘People don’t like you’.
I am a harmless human-being that has his own mind and thinking process. Unless I harm someone, kindly allow me to be the way I am, and not the way you want me to be.
You are free to decide if I am ‘Different’ or I am ‘Indifferent’.
