Sunday, June 8, 2008

A world that revolves around pretense

A certain person once told me "I don't think it is possible for you to hate anyone. Is there even one person you really, really, hate from the bottom of your heart?" I laugh smugly to myself now as I ask myself this question and find the answer. It took a long long time, but finally, the fact that I can pretend to the whole damn world, but I cannot pretend to myself, has sunk in.

There was a time when I did not know what the word "pretense" meant. But today, I guess I want to pretend I don't know what it means because this is a world that revolves around pretense.

5 comments:

bhuvanendra said...

Can you please explain to me the difference b/w pretends and pretense ? :)

Renu said...

Pretend is a verb and pretense is a noun :D bhuni!

bhuvanendra said...

D'OH

Gagan said...

Hey nice to see your blog!
There are very few people who don't pretend, and I don't necessarily like all of them. You'd rather pretend sometimes :)

Anirudh S Shastry said...

Well, isn't pretense pretense in and of it self? ;)