THE ART OF SUCKING UP!
Inspired to write about this unusual habit that I have often observed in people, I decided it was time to write an article to bring to notice to everyone about this habit called SUCKING UP!
It’s a funny thing this “sucking up “ people do...it’s a form of art in its own way..Henceforth, the title THE ART OF SUCKING UP!
Yes, I said The Art of Sucking up. But before I move onto what i think about this art of sucking up is, here’s a so called definition of sucking up that i read somewhere...
” Sucking up is an unusual trait to attribute to a team player, but you will be surprised to learn that the best players actually resort to it every now and then.”
To put this definition in simple words, of course according to what I think... sucking up is a trait of sheer over-board of flattery with a motive behind it.
It’s funny how when sitting a midst of a group of friends, one notices how each of the friends is different from the other. One can actually notice who’s sucking up to whom but honestly, how many people are aware that their being sucked up to. What I do not understand is why people have to suck up to others. Do people suck up to others for getting things done? Do they suck up for being in someone’s good books??
I was browsing through a site and something interesting caught my attention, it was an article about how people should suck-up and had three basic principles one should adhere when it comes to sucking up. I couldn’t help but take note of it. The principles were:
Give praise only when you mean it.
Show it sparingly.
Do it in a manner that will not offend any onlookers.
I don’t understand why would anyone need principles to learn how to suck up to people?
I think when people suck up, they’re just simply faking who they really are. But why be someone else. Speaking of being someone else, I remember Kurt Cobain said, “being someone else is wasting who you are”. But just the opposite is happening, people tend to suck up so much that they end up forgetting themselves and with time, the real person within fades away. Think about it, how many people do you know, are trying to be like someone else or their sucking up to another person?
Maybe a few, say out of 10 friends, 4. Which means, that in a few years time out of those four genuine people, thanks to the influence of the others, we’ll have probably just one or if we’re lucky two people who are being themselves? My calculations maybe wrong but again this is seriously something we should think about. I know i haven’t much to do but when i thought about it... i realized that i do really know not one but say five or six people who fake everything about themselves and suck up to people just to get something done from them!
My question to the people reading this is, have we forgotten who we really are from within? Whatever happened to being ourselves? The real us? Has the real person from within us gone out of the picture because of various influences? Have we given up on the other ways of getting things that we need to suck up to people?
Inspired to write about this unusual habit that I have often observed in people, I decided it was time to write an article to bring to notice to everyone about this habit called SUCKING UP!
It’s a funny thing this “sucking up “ people do...it’s a form of art in its own way..Henceforth, the title THE ART OF SUCKING UP!
Yes, I said The Art of Sucking up. But before I move onto what i think about this art of sucking up is, here’s a so called definition of sucking up that i read somewhere...
” Sucking up is an unusual trait to attribute to a team player, but you will be surprised to learn that the best players actually resort to it every now and then.”
To put this definition in simple words, of course according to what I think... sucking up is a trait of sheer over-board of flattery with a motive behind it.
It’s funny how when sitting a midst of a group of friends, one notices how each of the friends is different from the other. One can actually notice who’s sucking up to whom but honestly, how many people are aware that their being sucked up to. What I do not understand is why people have to suck up to others. Do people suck up to others for getting things done? Do they suck up for being in someone’s good books??
I was browsing through a site and something interesting caught my attention, it was an article about how people should suck-up and had three basic principles one should adhere when it comes to sucking up. I couldn’t help but take note of it. The principles were:
Give praise only when you mean it.
Show it sparingly.
Do it in a manner that will not offend any onlookers.
I don’t understand why would anyone need principles to learn how to suck up to people?
I think when people suck up, they’re just simply faking who they really are. But why be someone else. Speaking of being someone else, I remember Kurt Cobain said, “being someone else is wasting who you are”. But just the opposite is happening, people tend to suck up so much that they end up forgetting themselves and with time, the real person within fades away. Think about it, how many people do you know, are trying to be like someone else or their sucking up to another person?
Maybe a few, say out of 10 friends, 4. Which means, that in a few years time out of those four genuine people, thanks to the influence of the others, we’ll have probably just one or if we’re lucky two people who are being themselves? My calculations maybe wrong but again this is seriously something we should think about. I know i haven’t much to do but when i thought about it... i realized that i do really know not one but say five or six people who fake everything about themselves and suck up to people just to get something done from them!
My question to the people reading this is, have we forgotten who we really are from within? Whatever happened to being ourselves? The real us? Has the real person from within us gone out of the picture because of various influences? Have we given up on the other ways of getting things that we need to suck up to people?
