The way people think

I used to think people have a very complex way of thinking whereas it is not so in most of the cases. Most people are so straightforward about the way they think that it is amazing that such normalcy can actually exist. While thinking about characters for my story, I think I unnecessarily try to make them very complex individuals. I’m gradually concluding that complex plots originate out of mundane (so called mundane)

A long time ago we purchased a Hindi translation of a charming Russian book for childred: Jab Papa Bachche The (When Father Was Young). These are the stories written by a doting daughter about her father when her father was a child. In one of those stories, she mentions a peculiar character of her father’s:

The boys knew that Papa didn’t like it when someone waved a finger in front of him. They knew that he would cry if they waved a finger in front of him. So they waved their fingers in front of him and he cried.

This is how an average individual — even a grownup individual — deals with life, with situations, and with people. Particular actions elicit particular, set responses. People are scared to think out of the box; in fact they don’t want to think at all. That is why there only a few people who really achieve something in their lives because apart from bizarre exceptions, it takes thinking and hard work to do something really meaningful and fulfilling. Anybody can be a Kolhu ka bael (English?).