| ashu |
Posted
on 04-Jul-01 03:02 AM
I notice, much to my amusement, that my anonymous attackers with known names also relish pointing out that "Ashutosh Tiwari is so insecure about this and that . . ." as though being insecure
were a negative thing and required (gasp, choke!!) psychoanalysis!!
(See the story below!)
These attackers' strategy goes like this:
One posts against me.
Then another posts his agreement usually in deliberate
broken English and affected type-faces.
Then they further post under other names, leading to further
agreement with one another re: what a jerk this
Ashu guy is and this leads to further anti-Ashu postings.
This is all very clever in that reading all these attacks
from various names may make OTHER non-suspecting readers
think that "My God, looks like EVERYONE is against this
Ashu guy, so this guy must be a jerk."
My attackers goal then is: Discredit Ashutosh Tiwari as a
pathetic loser and no-good, insecure guy.
Fantastic.
But I find this all very funny, and very
entertaining indeed, and I love it.
Fortunately, having dealt with these buggers on SCN before,
I am familiar with their methods, and can only smile when I recognize the same methods at play here. After all,
the creativity of that one cheeky little bugger does
run from mere A to B; so what can you do except sit back
and enjoy the show?
As far as the issue of insecurity is concerned, Shailesh
Nath Gongal, who spends all his waking hours to make
GBNC Board a vibrant place, once told me that during his orientation week at MIT's Urban Planning program, even professors there were openly admitting insecurity about being at MIT,
about not doing enough research . . . about not being
the best of the best in their fields.
The lesson I learnt from Shailesh Nath Gongal (I love
the way that whole wonderful name -- like some preppy
name -- rolls off my tongue!) was: If world-class MIT
professors have/have were secure enough to share their
insecurities publicly so as to be even better and
work even harder, then, hey, who are you and I to NOT
feel insecure once in a while about anything in life?
Maybe, learning from Shailesh Nath Gongal's professors, we
all need, you know, just a little insecurity now and then so
that we don't rest easy today and forever strive to be better
tomorrow than we are today.
oohi
perfectly secure about being, you know, insecure
ashu
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