My younger brother has always been like a good friend to me. I share with him all my weird ideas. He is a good guy to hang out with but at the end of the day he still remains what he has been destined to be - my brother!! So like many other siblings we do maintain a fierce(and sometimes violent) sibling rivalry. During our teenage years, quite often our humorous discussions got transformed into howling disagreements. There were times when he was wrong and I was right and there were occasions when he was right and I fell on the wrong side of the argument. In the former case, I used to defend my self-righteousness with all the zeal and vigor I could manage but there were occasions when I knew that I was wrong but I still tried to put up a brave fight to shield my self- inflated ego. To my frustration, I always lost in the latter case because somehow somewhere in my heart, I knew I was wrong.
The worst scene occurred when I believed that I was right and he knew that he was correct. These were the most fiercely fought battles in which neither side gave up and sometimes things became so ugly that we utilized all the newly acquired WWE tricks(twisting arms, pulling hairs and peeling off other’s skin) to prove our respective points. Hearing to the cries and clamor, our mom would come running and separate the two entangled bodies but neither of us surrendered because none of us was wrong- I was right and he was correct.
Well, all this crap is being discussed here because I find a strange and striking similarity between our tussles and current global scenario. We’ll talk about it in my next article…(to be continued…)
PS- Slowly I have started believing that I have this disease of discovering and sometimes inventing similarities…what say??
cudnt get the diff between the right and the correct...
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