Reality and Influence: Hypocritical Nature

By Ausama Anwar:

The title seems to be very grand, mixing such important topics in one article. So I start by explaining the title and the concept of this article.

Reality: It’s what we live in, it’s what we can’t escape, Even if we try, by getting into dreams and Imagination, we are still in it, and it still affects us. But by Reality I mean here also the things we think and believe. I am a student. It’s my reality. I can’t consider myself being a teacher while I am still in 11th grade and so my reality affects my personality, affects my speeches and affects my most important thing, my Thinking. But what’s the Influence then?

Influence: It’s what shapes what we are, and what we will be. It lives within reality but so deeply that we can’t feel it when it works on us. The key question is: What are the things that have influence on us although we aren’t aware of this?

Our daily life shows us what we are. What are those things that take up most of our daily time? What are those things we are most interested in? What do we like and love? By answering all those questions simply we can see our reality, but where can we see the influence?

Sometimes we think we are what we think in reality, but things seem so different when we look closely. Human nature is like nothing else. We can’t hide what we love and what interests us, because we like to show in public what we believe and what we think. Sometimes there is a clash between what we love and what we believe. Put simply, what we believe may be the thing we’ve been told to believe and it’s what society decides for us. But, when what we love becomes something contrary, we should choose only one of them, and the other one will be the hidden side, and that’s when the hypocritical nature appears. It mostly happens with people who have been taught to believe what society believes and think as the community thinks, especially on religious matters.

The Iraqi society researcher Dr. Ali Wardi, in one of his articles entitled ‘Hypocrisy of Society’, gives an example of the people who have a clash between their beliefs and what they love (I call this situation ‘Hypocritical Nature’). He tells us about a man who loved to hear Imams advising the people and warning them from forbidden matters in religion and stuff, but at the same time the man loved creating fights and killing people. It’s an obvious example, but how many others we can see with the people around us, especially when it comes to simple tiny things?

We may put on a show to be so friendly and intellectual and believers in what’s modern and what most people think of being good and bad. But what are we really when we are alone? Will we be same as we were with them? Do we just pretend or do we really not care about such matters? What about the religious side? How many people we have seen who seem to be so religious but are doing things that they surely know go against their faith.

I want to liken the belief as the reality and what we see; and consider the ‘love of sin’ as the influence. For example, if we spend most of our most daily time being far away from reading books and with worthless stuff, we can’t know anything about books and what’s in them. So, when we talk about this in front of our friends, it’s what creates a reality. We believe that books are the most beneficial things; at the same time our interests are different, and they create the influence over us. The influence is ANYTHING that we spend most of our daily life with.

Ausama Anwar was born in 1994, in the capital of the Kurdistan region, Hawler. He is a writer and author of two books published in Kurdish. ‘A Gate to the Intellectual’ is dedicated to youth generally with an intellectual background. ‘Hidden Idea: Some Samples from Movies’ is a work of creative movie analysis. Ausama is also a journalist at ‘Yakgrtw’ newspaper, and leader of a society youth group called ‘Zamwa’.