Here is some food for thought and not a means to safeguard me and my blog. Often the term Cynic and Hypocrite are used in a manner which is meant to display a negative emotion. I do not have to illustrate how often these words have come in our vocabulary. So I thought I should dig deep into these words a little. My quest for “The knowledge” makes me do so {Something I have been advised against, but you don’t listen to all the advices in life, do you ? J} So let’s begin the journey of a cynic.
Contrary to our general knowledge about an individual being a cynic, in the truest form a cynic is a person who seeks happiness in suffering. I am not making a statement; Wikipedia backs me up on this. A cynic is that person who leads a happy life based on the laws of nature, a person with great mental strength and devoid of worldly worries. To sum it up, I would say great personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa to the immortal Siddhartha {fondly known as Gautam Buddha} are the most ideal paradigms of a cynical individual. Funny thing is that any individual who calls a cynic a “cynic” in a mocking/insulting way is a hypocrite.
Based on our highly-active assumption powers, I am pretty sure you never double-checked this before. If you did, “Sigh, what a cynic you are indeed.”
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