Great Pretenders

Among the people around you, not excluding if they’re blood related or you consider close to you, my personal statistic is that half or more than half of them are great pretenders. If you think that Shape Shifters are just a mythical creature, then I can prove you wrong. These are the people who knows how to smile at you while doing/saying something unpleasant about you at the back of your head. At first, it’s really quite hard for me to identify the people who are true and who are microwaveable plastics. But once you get used to it, with all the disappointments and the regrets of trusting them, I can even identify how they smell like...

I do have some theories after analyzing why this kind of trait exists in us. And I don’t want to be a hypocrite, and yes, I do admit that I  myself can top notch the role of pretending. So why do we do this when we all know that honesty is the best policy? First, we tend to  pretend for the sake of not causing too much damage. Sometimes we have to do this to hold back what we really feel in order not to hurt someone. One best safe example I can think of is when you’re in a meeting with all your colleagues and your boss. Even if you don’t like some of the people around you inside that room or even your boss, you just pretend that you’re ok and put the fake smiles just to cover up what you feel.  This is necessary as we are just trying to be in a professional manner specially if the discussion is purely work related. Some people who are too submissive are also good in pretending. Maybe because it’s easier for them to just get along with the situation rather than saying what they really feel for the reason that it’s either they hate arguments or they’re just lame to forecast a possible debate out of it.

The last thing I can think of why some are fond of this plastic attitude is due to power tripping. Just for the purpose of fooling someone and set this up as a good laughing conversation with their friends can make them feel quite superior sometimes. Very high school-ish huh?! But seriously, it has no age limit. Just a level of maturity I guess. Or also, if a person would just want to gather some good facts about you, that they can squeal out which can turn into a major gossip. I really find it so stupid that such filthy low-life creature exists. Whenever you will encounter such people, just try not to stoop down on their level and just have this thought that maybe they’re not satisfied with their fucked up lives or they’re not happy with their childhood etc.

The pros and cons of pretending. In some way, it can really help ease the situation but can we treat this as a good practice? Maybe it depends. But considering the law of life, pretending is somewhat lying. Like even if it’s a white lie, it is still a lie…