When I was a kid my father once told
me that humans were like onions-layered. I am pretty sure that this was not his
own creativity, but borrowed. However, those words stuck with me, but for a
different reason, as at that point of time all that I associated with onions
was stench, tears and a distasteful flavor. And funnily enough, that’s pretty
much all I can associate with humans.
On a pessimistic day, like today, I
think beneath all the layers of deceit and pungency, lies, well, nothing. I mean
you peel, and peel, and peel- to get nothing. On an optimistic day, I tend to
examine the layers up close. And trust me, then too, it’s not all hunky dory.
Just like the exterior of an onion,
dry and deceptive, we humans too feign fake emotion, a façade. You can be what
you want to be, but only for some time. Just as easy it is to peel off those outer
layers; it is as simple to unearth the person beneath. It takes only a coffee
date or two to know that your girlfriend belongs to the female canine species
or your boyfriend, in simple English, is a dog. But you still continue to meet.
Because you are a peeler! You want to see the layers, slowly uncovering every
little annoyance about the person. Yet to continue with the hope of a juicy
center, but it’s all hollow.
I frankly sometimes don’t see the
point in knowing a person so deeply because what you are ultimately going to
end up with is the hollow core. But then with a vivid mind when I think, I realize
it’s the process of chopping/dicing/slicing all the layers that helps you
connect with the person’s particular trait (good and ugly) that even you
possess.
However jittery, hurtful,
irritating, and painful the path of self-discovery is, the path of excavating someone
else is sadistically easier, joyful, and critical.
So be mindful while you peel of your onions, because
while you are teary-eyed busy doing so, someone else is un-layering you!
PS:
Ah well, all this from an onion that just got slaughtered and fried by me!
