My Favourite Sin!

Vanity, my favourite sin.*

We meet so many people. So many good souls, proud souls, bad souls, weird souls (mostly), nice souls, etcetra, etcetra.
I've known all of the above and will continue to know.

A friend once told me this (thanks Rashmi), is that a person may not be proud but that does not mean they are not vain! So true! Vanity! A simple girl from a humble background, pretty, does a movie, dumps her boyfriend of many years to be with a popular guy probably half as good looking (Frieda Pinto - Slumdog Millionaire)! A gorgeous guy, leaves his girl, the one that supported his dreams, to screw some ugly lady on P3 (So many, don't make me count. Hello, Tom Cruise!). Hollywood (even Bollywood) divorce 'cause I'm better than you. I"M BETTER THAN YOU!

Strangely, we have the same anatomy, same bio chemistry, same physics to follow and yet we're so different! Where is the difference? It's simple. Vanity! All disastrous relations (man and woman, mother and child, father and child, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, master and mistress, man and animal, man and God, Bulls and Lakers!) all follow the same pattern - we all feel in some way "I'm better". Even when you get dumped - you think about all the bad things in your head that became true and you were right? Think again - were you right? Did you have the pride to say sorry - knowing you may not be wrong, but it would make things right? Did you have the pride to make that phone call that never happened till an e-mail told you were single? Did you have the pride to tell your parents that their out-dated ideas were not so bad because your salary hike was like charity from the organisation?

Pride - let me say this, is not about standing up for everything you say. Pride - is about changing what you believed (if you were wrong) and never giving up!

Don't mix the two.

Vanity, Definitely my favourite sin.**


P.S. I'm going to say more on this topic soon - and I don't care what you think, cause you don't matter! ;)

*&** Al Pacino in "The Devil's Advocate"