Hypocrisy…is defined as the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious
beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy involves
the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie. The art of not practicing what you
preach. Some people are so very good at
this. A hypocrite is someone who
practices hypocrisy.
Since I am not a big fan of
liars, one can imagine where a hypocrite might fall on my scale of “people I
have problems being around.”
At times I have the capacity to deal
with this more than other times. Could
be that the moon and stars are not aligning correctly or something but honestly,
some days I can just look at a person and shake my head and think “how do you
function?”
We all have met a hypocrite or
two. We all know one or two who exist in
our day to day lives. How do you deal
with them? Yes, you, I am asking how you
deal with a person who literally says one thing and then does the polar
opposite. I think not unlike compulsive
liars, these people do not even really know they are being hypocrites, or
hypocritical. All I know for sure is that
I love the word. I love using the
word. I love calling someone a hypocrite
and don’t use the term lightly, so I don’t just randomly throw it out willy
nilly so it loses its meaning. If I call
you one, I really feel that you are.
If I have personally been a
hypocrite it has been unintentional and I apologize to anyone who has felt that
I was. It is one of my least favorite
qualities about a person. Kind of like
respect, if I have none for someone, I never will. If I think you are a hypocrite, I most likely
always will. Perhaps that is hypocritical
of me.
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