Starry-eyed strangers

Have you ever felt this strange feeling that you are being watched all the time? Or wondered if you have become famous over night without your knowledge? Yes you have earned the empathy of fellow being-stared-at individual.

It is a known and a (sadly) accepted behavior of us Indians. This is what “Asians” are known for by the Caucasian or the westerners- they stare!!! Not like we should care right we are far more “cultured” and have a lot more “traditions” and “values” that we boast about and what are those beef eating French kissing westerners all about right???

Well but we have to face the fact that we stare not only at outsiders but everyone around us to make others either uncomfortable or embarrassed or something I seriously don’t get the reason behind this horrendous behavior. I mean c’mon people: Is there a hideous Martian on my shoulder or do I look like an alien to you??? And what painful is even the educated class do this, I mean from old respectable looking people to the simple home makers and the cool dudes and dudettes.

The worst affected are the female lot (yes all my articles comes down to that don’t ask me why) be it in casuals to sarees and salwars and burkahs. We females suffer the inexhaustible energy of the gaping strangers as if there was new flashing on our foreheads. Buzz buzz …This just in jaded-queen has become the President and has called for a law against staring without any obvious reasons…how that would be for a change…Keeping the jokes aside. We would be glad if the twinkling eyes of these strangers would stay in the face and the forehead region but they go down and that is just sick to the core of any human soul.

I was so glad that the Helmet rule was implemented in Bangalore and now atleast in the traffic signal the “Starers” could rest their eyes in this reference and the “Starees” could rest brains which other wise would be wondering :Oh my god I think I have mayonnaise on my face damn you Anushka wish you had seen it and told me to clean up!!! But my expectation was wrong, apparently I expected too much from my fellow being, nope we can expect them to not look. Now the pillions stare and when the driver with the helmet wants to stare, from the corner of your eyes you can see plastic sphere turning towards you with a human head inside.

Its not like only the female lots are the victims like the usual presumption but there are a few nasty unscrupulous girls and women out there who would not spare any man or even women his/her privacy and at the least respect for personal space. Oh don’t even get me started on the respect for personal space because we just feel so insecure without another life form with 0.009cm of the circumference of our bodies that a whole different thing. I know it may seem like a teeny tiny issue which, I a jobless person am blowing it out of proportion and all I could do was just ignore the stares and move on. Well I speak for the few people who cant ignore these gapes and gorging eyes this is very very very bad mannered of us so lets make a conscious effort to stop this. I mean it has reached up to the level of global popularity based on our nationality lets not do this and move on and learn respect an individual as an individual and not as a monument from the museum called the universe. And as for the people who enjoy this unduly attention don’t worry my estimation is this is going to stick on a long time…Sad but true….