Food For Thought.

My Dad recently told me I have a country singer's voice. I was shocked (not disappointed, shocked, in a good way). He said that my voice is the kind that sounds better along with a strumming guitar rather than an orchestra or two in the background.

It gave me some food for thought.

So while I sat there chewing (excuse the pun), I remembered something a good friend told me once. I had asked that friend whether I knew him well. He replied that he didn't think he was the judge in that matter. Now I, being a firm believer in the thing-ama-bob, "People who think they know me better than me.... don't know anything", was a bit, you might say, unnerved by this response. So he told me that if he thought he knew himself well enough to judge, it would be a different matter. I smiled.

Many a time, we think that we are something that we have to be all the time. If you're a party animal, you can't stay quiet. If you're a quiet person, you cant get crazy.

Then, when someone comes and tells you that you're not the person you thought you are, it's quite a jolt. You can choose to take it in any way. Sure, we're the best judges of ourselves. But that doesn't mean we don't let our friends and family and people who care about us have a hand in making ourselves better people.

Sometimes you gotta let it go. Sometimes, you have to learn to learn from people other than you. Sometimes .... you have to think a bit before deciding how to react to people's comments about you.

A lot of times, though, people don't comment. But don't get all proud about it, you never know what reason they have for not telling you what they think of you. It happens very often that you know what you really are ... but people react to it differently. And it ends up in lots of nonsensical circumstances like misunderstanding and crying and suicide and what-not. So if people aren't commenting, there must be something wrong. Talk to them about it.

What I'm trying to say is don't think that you can live in isolation or not let anyone interfere in your life. That's not possible. You need to know what people think. Because sometimes, they're not out to get you. Sometimes .... they just might be right.

And I am so GLAD that I found out what kind of voice I have! Some people never find out. And I'm not one of them.

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