After being in Lucknow for a while now I’ve begun to see certain patterns within the place. The people here pick up whims and the whole crowd gets engrossed following the trend. The latest here is networking, everybody wants to know everyone, they talk about whose party each had gone to, discussing whose more popular.. At times it feels there’s some race happening and each wants to outdo the other but whom do they want to know, I mean who would the most popular ones want to know or do they find contentment in the fact that everybody knows them??
Perhaps it’s the festive season that’s brought out this trait amongst people or it’s the insecurity within them, the fear of being left alone?? Like wouldn’t someone want to hang out with like minded people, be around friends than just be with anyone for the heck of it??
Probably what I am seeing around me is new to me, I am unable to grasp how this place has grown like any big city where networking is a big deal, maybe being absent during this transformation has left me a little lost and I still associate myself with the city where small groups existed, where I had a tiny circle and that’s the only thing that mattered, where fun was being with them, being myself..
It’ll take me a while to grasp it all, to understand the dynamics of it, to grab the big picture but I doubt I’ll be up for it myself ever but then as I’ve always believed, it would all saturate to a single line: “ to each his own”!!
P.S: This post is not intended to offend anyone at all, its merely a something I've observed which is taking some time to sink in.
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coming some small town tends to do it to one
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hmmm......
its part of the cycle of evolution of a town into a city then further into a metropolis.
Good observation. Never new you were so observant.
So this means you've been to quite a few parties then ;)
Networking.. I suppose is ideal for business. On a personal level, the smaller comfy groups is what works best.... in my view.
Like they say.. it's not the quantity but the quality.
Is that so? I was mostly with friends/family during my last visit.
Will be more observant when I show up in Dec :-) but I'm sure, will hardly find time to network even then. Guess I do enough of it out here!
Burf, Really??
Anon, Who said you know me?? :P
J, Not really, just see people around me doing so.. I too am a believer in the small group thingy!! :)
Sangfroid, You gotta be there longer to actually see it.. :)
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