Being Multifaceted

Are you multifaceted? Yes? Is it wrong? Absolutely freaking not.

"I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with." - Dmitry Medvedev

I agree on full scale to Dmitry Medvedev's quote. Your classmate stays for another extra ten minutes in the Chemistry laboratory even when the class was long over. Right before the Chemistry teacher leaves, he swiftly runs towards the outgoing teacher and fires multiple questions at the teacher. She quickly brushes him off, citing schedule conflict as her reasons to escape. The bell chimes for the second time and he packs his stuff and leaves the deserted laboratory, with books and files burdened on him. As he walks past a few other students, they glance oddly at him and murmur, "nerd." Whatttttt? 

The point is that we live, breathe and walk in a judgemental world. Everywhere we walk and everyone we speak to host a judgemental behaviour within themselves. You speak to all of people casually - oh you're flirty! You rarely speak to anyone or feel shy while interacting in a society - you bloody selectively social idiot. You mind your own business and focus on your education - haha, freaking nerd! It is as if there is absolutely nothing you could do to escape any judgemental views.

But that's not the reason why I am writing this post. I am writing this post to state one thing clearly; being multifaceted is not wrong. It is indeed extremely wise to do so.

The only reason I believe everyone tends to be multifaceted is because their true self - real character - is too odd for the circle. Whatever their real character is, it's so hard to express it because they are afraid they might be rejected, isolated, pressured or even insulted for what they are really inside. An academically well-achieved student tends to lie about his excellent high examination marks to his friends, who got a relatively low or moderate score.

Thus, he fakes his real marks and tell a lower - or specifically, a similar - score with his friends. The bottom line is one is forced to conceal one's true identity to accommodate other's preferences. Do not get me wrong. This is not the "multifaceted" attitude I'm promoting. The multifaceted attitude I'm implementing is an attitude where one knows who to manipulate and earn one's trust and comfort.

To simply put this -  a multifaceted person knows how to talk smoothly and sweetly to one.

Be as angry as Edward Norton - yet know when to become as eccentric as Brad Pitt.

Using such tool, one could convince the most truculent and stubborn person to their own benefits. Because in today's world, everyone is important. Therefore, acknowledge how to talk differently to different people. Still, that would implement some serious trust issues around the circle. Nobody likes James who talk nice to you and talks bad about you to others.

I'll admit. I'm a multifaceted person - not many are gonna like what's I'm confessing, lol. However, to avoid creating and stirring any troubles, I follow five specific rules - taught to me by an anonymous taxi driver - whilst being multifaceted.

• Everyone around you are protecting their own privileges. Everyone around you are multifaceted. Thus, don't feel guilty. 
• As long as you don't want anyone to know your horrible side, it's fine being multifaceted.
• Never ever be multifaceted just for the sake of trying to attains someone's secret or trying to spread rumours or gossips. #disgusting
• Be good though. Do not intentionally be arrogant or turn a cold shoulder towards one.
• Use it to make friends, not to stir up enemies.

Of course, I don't expect everyone reading such subjective scribble to agree with what I'm saying. If you are on the other side of argument, you must have narrowed your perspective of the term - multifaceted. My theorem of the term multifaceted is that one who knows how to be friends with everyone.

Thanks to an anonymous taxi driver - who is responsible for influencing me with such conditions - and Jade.

Scribbler, 
TJ.