Human beings. We're all the same, really. Our inherent characters evolved from the same origins. So how different can we be? Our apparent differences are but slight variations of the same similarities. And underneath that mirage of variation, is really a pattern. That’s why people come up with intelligent classification of human personalities such as horoscopes. So, as ridiculous as it sounds, the world MAY indeed be made up of 12 major personalities after all.

For one, most of us do not know what we want. The only difference is that some people admit it, while others don’t. Some people realise it, some don’t. And many, until the day they die, may never be entirely sure of it either. The saddest of all, would be those who die without realising that they’ve lived in utter cluelessness. It’s like being tone-deaf. Because it’s no big deal to sing out of tune. But you know it’s a gone case when you sing out of tune and you have absolutely no idea.

But just that pitchy singing is nowhere as serious a matter as living a life being clueless about your cluelessness. What a sad, sad life. Thinking you know yourself inside out, only to find out at some point when it’s too late, that you’re not who you always thought you were. Or rather, who you always HOPED you were.

And then, there is also our selfishness. Yet another of our common innate survival characteristics. And similarly, the only difference would be those who admit it and those who go to their graves denying it. Among the second group, you can further subdivide it into subgroups of those who simply live in blissful ignorance of their own selfishness but mind their own business, and those who also live in the same blissful ignorance but choose to make a great racket over other people’s selfishness. For the latter group, let’s just forgive them. They just NEED to take attention away from their own insecurities. But still, to this exclusive group of blissfully ignorant people: Get a grip and face it, we’re ALL selfish!

So I realised, that there’s no need to go any further down the list of other universal human characteristics. Because there are actually only 2 major groups of people in this world. Those who admit it and those who don’t. Of the fact that, like those whom we love to hate and criticize, we’re ALL flawed. IN EVERY SINGLE WAY.

Like those whom we criticize about not knowing what they want, neither do we. (At least they know that they don’t know. Some of us don’t even know that we don’t know. And that’s scary. Quoting Mark Twain, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”)

Like those whom we hate for being selfish, so are we. No need to elaborate.

Like those whom we want to strangle for being such a bitch, so are we.

Like all those whose mistakes we can’t wait to point out and correct, we’re actually doing the same thing.

And it goes on.

So please stop. Quit making such a big fuss and just pause to look into the mirror. And I hope you remember what you see.

And for those who don’t: IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP BABY!

Before it’s too late.

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