Double face? Nah, plenty.

Do you know a double faceted person? Of course you do look in the mirror everyday. Did I just call you double face? Yes and why not. Ask yourself, are you the same person when in front of your friends and when in front of your parents.

The answer is most probably no. That’s because we all put on different faces in different situations to please the other party.

Now, you would argue that being a double face is a metaphor which means someone saying something on your face and something entirely different on someone else’s face is what is called double face.

Agreed, but here I’m trying to emphasize how we change our personality to suit the surroundings. We change the way we walk, talk and even who we mock.

I don’t see any bad in wearing all these faces until obviously when you start compromising your basic ethics. It’s all fine till you know your limits and try to best adjust to a situation.

Or in my view. Wearing different faces in front of different people is rather an important skill. It helps you make better connections. Let me clarify again, I don’t mean bitching about one friend while talking to another. I just mean making a subtle fine tune to the way you speak and behave according to the person you are talking.

Taking the same face in front of everyone is an old and primitive practice. For example, when I first meet someone, the first thing I try to gauge is what language (English or Hindi) is he better comfortable with. The next judgement I make is weather simple English would do or do I need to throw some difficult words here and there coupled with a weirdo accent. Different approaches work for different people.

Going with the exact same approach towards everyone won’t ever fetch me the desired results. So let’s accept it, we are living in the age of multi-face civilization. But this doesn’t mean we compromise our basic values to fine tune our approach.

Something we all need to learn is the skill to be multi-faceted without disrespecting anyone or anything. This is a complex skill to master but I think we’ll get there.

-ChoubeySahab