Arastu Zakia

It is our imperfections that make us human

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He says approval comes from within but he keeps reopening facebook to check how many likes his last post got.

She writes that beauty lies within but can't resist the urge to edit and post her latest selfie.

He tells everyone he's confident and secure as hell, but he feels terribly anxious each morning!

She says she loves him and will fight for him but she feels shit scared every night.

He doesn't ever like showing a vulnerability to anyone else but he cries when alone every other night.

She goes around announcing that it is important to be kind to people, especially those whom you don't stand to gain from, but she does not know her maid's real name.

He's a social activist, advocates peace and equality. But he didn't feel guilty at all after hitting his wife the other night.

She knows he's married and that it's wrong, but she doesn't object and leads him on, eventually concluding that she was harassed.

He hangs a poster of a cricketer on his office wall and quotes him in his speeches but he unconditionally vetoes his son's desire to take up cricket professionally.

She was told by the doctor that it could become a matter of life and death if she doesn't begin exercising but she just can't manage to wake up early the next morning.

He thinks he has learnt his lesson and will now never trust people easily and the next time he vows to never repeat the same mistake a third time.

She silences him up saying she no longer has any blind faith but can't go to sleep without reciting that one mantra her palmist told her to recite.

He thinks he knows it all and was right when he quieted his daughter an hour ago, but he still feels so wrong and can't sleep that night.

She blames her parents for everything, but when they finally relent, she realizes maybe she was the problem.

He criticizes cheesy cinema but daydreams of being the lover boy the world dies for!

She comes out of the movie theatre all charged up and wanting to change the world but wonders what the whole fuss was about the next morning!

He feels he needs a raise in his current salary of 90,000/- a month but he feels hard-pressed when he has to pay the guy who cleans his car 500/- on the 1st.

He says he never ran after beauty but he can't control his eyes from moving in autopilot and lingering each time a sexy girl passes by

She accuses others of not asking for her opinions but she doesn't ask anyone's either when she takes the lead

He comes to work all charged up and advocates how focus is important but goes home that night depressed at how little he worked that day.

She says social customs are prisons but can't wait to get married to her boyfriend.

He says technology has become intrusive and he hates it but feels a void in his stimuli each time he can't feel his phone touching his body.

She gives a speech on how everyone should follow their dreams after having given up on her own.

He's very gentle and caring, hardly has he ever hurt anyone in any way, but he loves his chicken and his fish and just can't seem to give them up.

She loves overpowering him after every meal at a restaurant and paying for both of them but she still secretly wishes he never stops offering to pay!

He advocates gender equality and says he'll go out of his way to support his wife. But he has cooked a total of 6 times and she gave up her job for the kids.

She howls with anger each time someone violates a traffic law but she's yet to buy a helmet as it ruins her hair.

He says he is beyond it all, but still feels jealous each time he sees his old enemy getting more likes than him.

She can't miss a chance to critique others but doesn't allow anyone else to finish their sentence when she feels she's being critiqued......

...Look around, look within. You'll find such imperfections and dualities abound. They make us human, they make us who we are. They shall always remain, some shall never go. But being aware of them and trying to close the gap - now that's a pursuit worth pursuing...

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