"All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."- Simon & Garfunkel

‘Pretentious People-’ My God!

The world is full of ‘pretentious people’ who think they are the ‘know-it-all, done-it-all, and have-it-all’ so-called 'Privileged Group' while others are just plain dumb and exist only to listen to them while they just do blah blah. :-D They think their opinions matter most while others’ opinions are supposed to be thrown in the trash. They always have to have a say in any topic, small or big, whether they know it or not. So Funny huh! Because when you ask them what they are talking about in detail, they actually don’t know anything. All this time, they were just blabbering and nothing else. They must have heard somebody talking about something and then, they replicate the exact words but coated with a little dose of extra ‘fake intelligence’ to personalize it. Their intention is to drown out everybody’s voice so that they can impose their supremacy on others. But, what they fail to understand is that by doing all these, they are showing their inner insecurities and their inner desire to be taken importance by people. They are ignorant to the core which is visible to everyone but themselves.

Here, I can’t help remembering the saying “You cannot wake up someone who is only pretending to be asleep” that means that if people wish to remain ignorant of certain facts, there is no waking them up with the truth. Pretentious people don’t bother to make an effort and gather knowledge. Instead, they just continue irritating people. Oh, how much I pity these people! They use fake unabashedness and vivaciousness to prove that they are clever and important. But alas! Their attempt to impress anything that moves just doesn’t go well with anybody, not with me for sure. Ironically, no one who possesses these qualities ever needs to convince anyone of it. I just don't get the extent to which some people try too hard to be acknowledged. Why don’t they just let it go, take a chill pill, relax and enjoy life? Why bother so much?

I guess people have become so obsessed with self-image that ‘Pretentiousness’ has got deeply ingrained in their whole being. The level of competition between people has intensified to such an extent that people ends up comparing themselves to others all the time even for silly things. This got me thinking, why do people need validation from others who doesn’t matter at all in their life?