What kind of book keeper are you?

It is one of the many occasions that I would love to quote my mother. During my teenage, she persistently reminded me of her favorite phrase, ‘that life is like an exercise book’, behold a new book altogether when a child is born. All books are blank when new. Different people choose how they would love their books to be like…and we are all different. You put whatever pleases you on it.

Over the period I have learnt different personalities in my society. Let me, with your permission, use my mother’s theory to explain how I have understood it so far. I want to equate book keeping habits to personalities we come across in everyday life. With the case of a book, one of the following could happen in the hands of its owner:

1. The untidy type: this group is that lot of people who engage their lives in anything dirty the world offers. You know what; the world gives you everything at your disposal. What to take in and not to remains entirely in your verdict. Anyway, these are the people who engage themselves in drug abuse, illegal business deals, robbery and everything dirty you can think of. This category has given up on living decent lives. They no longer believe in earning a living the decent way. It is a book in dirty hands. It no longer appeals to anybody. However, inside the dirty book is so much untold story.
2. Those who tear off papers: I liken these to the society’s Mr. Perfect. These are people who want their life scripts so neat and in case of any error, they want nothing to do with past mistakes. They are not to be associated with failure. Many times, they are unsociable, no go zones and their only friends are their business partners or financial managers. They have the neatest, orderly, unstained, uncorrupted…name it, lives. The risk this group faces is when they have no other option and all leaflets of their books have been plucked off. Hypertension, cholesterol levels and ulcers are the end products.
3. Those who leave books in the rain/ misplace them: a book left in the rain is one that had so much information but all that is lost in the rain. A book with beautiful content could in the event loose all that is in it. In the case of personality, these are the kind of people who work very hard to build their lives, with so much hard work and diligence but in the end lose all they have built by a single act of carelessness. These are people for example, who take time to build their marriages and when it is the most beautiful thing, a spouse realizes that there’s so much fun outside marriage and marriage rings are nothing but small handcuffs.
4. Those who lend out/ sell their books: these are people who give up their personalities for money. In the contemporary world, everything has a money value attached to it. People are selling their personalities to impress others. You have to pretend that it is okay to be in the office before six o’clock and work late right. You too must always smile at your boss, however much you don’t like him because you would like to secure a promotion though deeply, you wish this man very dead! Sure, we are constantly selling our books and writing other people’s notes on them and at the end of it all, we are able to adopt infinite personalities. We end up owning so many people’s books. A good number of people completely become new people. Anyway, come to think about it, why do you think employers ask for flexibility as a quality for a potential employee? These are the employable characters.

However, others have really hard-to-change attributes. I believe these characters are those who were at the forefront in leading school strikes ‘during their times’. For your information, they only lent their books and only pretend short term; when extremely necessary!