Every couple or weeks or so, some new thing comes up which inundates your "Walls" and "Status Messages" on the various social networking platforms that are there. There used to be random shit like "Tag your pals" where you could wake up one day to find out which pokemon or which other equally redundant cartoon character your friend thinks you are. Then there was the "tough-questions-about-friends" app and the various manifestations of it, and the list sort of goes on.
And nothings changed. One thing or the other continues to crop up and catch your eyeballs everywhere. Now again, leaving aside the millions... AND THE MILLIONS (the rock reference there :) ) of photoshopped images of the Indian cricket team beating up the Australians and the Pakistanis, its another small webpage that has caught the fancy of people everywhere... a page rather innovatively named "What is wrong with me", which (if you didn't get by the web name) gives people an opportunity to tell you what is wrong with you. Anonymously too, if I may add.
What is this fascination that people have to know what other people think ? I think its everyone has a hidden narcissist inside of them that just WANTS to know... ( yeah thats right I said it, YOU SIR/madam (as the case may be) are a narcissist TOO... I just choose to wear it on my sleeve :P :D ).
Anywho, moving along, I decided to take a pot shot at the thing meself and went ahead and got my very own webpage where YOU can tell ME whats wrong with me.
http://whatiswrongwith.me/protik (Just in case you didn't see it yet...)
So I thought I'd dedicate this post to the wide gamut of, ummm interesting answers that I got.. all anonymous of course.
1. Anonymous says: nothing :)
I say : Brilliant. As we say in the "poker house" :D... "pura love rahega" :)
2. Anonymous says: oh no! you're perfect..
I say : Thank you... I sort of get the feeling that this was supposed to be sarcastic but I'll take it at face value. A certain part of me wants to believe that this answer was written by some pretty girl, say Angelina Jolie or Elisha Cuthbert.. :) :D
3. Anonymous says: you're a bong
I say : Hahahahaha... I don't know how that is my fault but I'll be damned if I say I didn't find that funny. :D
4. Anonymous says: smartass
I say : Ok I know who wrote this so " :P ". Maybe sometimes I am... I'll try to tone it down. Or not :D :P. No seriously I will. Maybe. :)
5. Anonymous says: Your mom was worried you are very Lazy.
I say : So the point that is being made is that I'm lazy, I think. Well actually I am, because you know, if there was a contest to find who the laziest guy in the world was.. I would lose. You know why ? Because I would have been too lazy to even enter. But more seriously, in my defense, I can be quite active while doing something that I like or WANT to do. Plus I like to be cozy and comfortable and preferably asleep.
6. Anonymous says: kyu..kyu..kyun yeh sab kyun...
I say : ainwayi
7. Anonymous says: 1+2=3
I say : Yes, I am a bit weak at maths. For people who don't believe me... just ask any of the guys who play poker or my closer friends. Well its not maths per se.. its basically basic arithmetic that I almost always mess up. Don't like it but its true. Coming to the comment made, "like rahega is answer pe dada.. kaafi innovative way mein bataye ho".
8. Anonymous says: sab peace hai be :)
I say : Thanks rahega dost :)
9. my name is..yes it is says: u r a loss...........pong!
I say : Haa Haa Ekdum.. NOT. LOSS :P (Its an inside joke.. I know who this is :D)
10. Anonymous says: u brag a lot.. act as if u r the most imp person around.. thoda humble ho jaa
I say : I don't know where you are coming from about the brag a lot thing, because I don't. About the other part, yes I do have a bloated ego and maybe it sometimes rubs off wrongly on other people. Sorry about that. But the bragging part is just outright wrong.
And a lot of other similar and some.. lets just say spam comments. Which brings me to the most interesting answer that I got and am dying to address...
Anonymous says:
You are smart, but you lack direction. To add to that, you are extremely narcissistic. Those are things that don't go together. It is probably the bengali in you. Try to think less selfishly, and whatever you do in life, make sure at the end you can look back and say, at the very least, 'Hey, I made a positive change in my environment and the people in it.' I am glad you decided to do this.
I say : Thank you. Now I know that there is someone out there who actually took the time to write down all this for me.. which means a lot. And most of the points hit home. I don't know who wrote it, but its evident that you know me really well and I would love to know who wrote it so I can thank him/her personally, though that would beat the whole point of it being anonymous ! But then its really eyeopening if someone does not mince his/her words and speaks the truth, and I know its meant for my good only. So thank you and I shall keep what you said in mind.
When I made the page, I thought of it as just a lark and evidently so did all other people who answered except for the last one above. I was actually quite touched by that one answer.
Anywho, be that as it may, it was good hearing from people what they think :). And if you still want to tell me a few uncomfortable truths.. go ahead and maybe I'll answer them here... :P :)
Peace.
