Quite often some public figure caught in the public glare, having a rollicking time with someone other than his wife, exclaims, “Leave my private life alone!”
What he means is that he’s got two lives, one for the public eye and the other not for us to look at. And it is only his public life that should be scrutinized, not his private life!
This is very desi, and for this reason we have MPs who talk about women empowerment but have a wife and also a mistress living in two different homes with two sets of children, both waiting to greet him after his speech. “Did you like my speech?” he asks his wife and she smiles, maybe a sad one albeit.
“How was my speech?” he asks his mistress as his two daughters born out of wedlock squeal all over him and she replies, “What a forceful voice you have!”
Yes, what a forceful public voice he has!
What a voice we all have! Because that is what the public is meant to see.
But should we accept the fact his private life cannot come under the scanner?
Lets throw our moral spectacles away and look at it logically: Is it a different man who speaks on women empowerment and another cheating on his wife at home?
Is it a different man who runs a ruthless business and another who wants to get elected into the Rajya Sabha so he can fight for issues relevant to the common man?
“Hey doc, is that one man or two?”
“I’m a GP, I think you need to go to an eye doctor, can’t you see it’s one man?”
So that’s confirmed, it’s the same man! Now tell me, logically, if that man cheats in his private domain, won’t he do the same in the public one?
Of course he will. Like the good ole doc we just asked said, “It’s the same man!”
And why then are we shocked to see that the criminal whom we voted for, is now looting public money?
Why are we so outraged when a committee member in our own managing committees takes us for a ride on a redevelopment project? Didn’t we see his dishonesty in his private life? Can’t we see it in the way he treats his wife or daughter? Or didn’t we see his lack of integrity in the way he usurped society property?
It is time we understand that there can be no distinction between public life and ‘unpublic’ life. It’s the same life, the same man or woman, and what you see here, you will see there. “Right doc?”
“Just be logical will you..!”
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So true.
Nothing ‘private’ when an individual is in the ‘public eye.’
Polygamy should be banned!
These so-called
‘Robin-hoods’ of modern times simply loot for personal gain fooling the naive public.
Absolutely true ????. Well said. But no one seems to understand or rather no one is on the same page as you and me. Everyone wants to give an excuse for the wrong motives they have. But they cannot be trusted.
nicely put Bob. Sensitive topic.
Thank you Emmy.