Honesty or hypocrisy?

A character I can relate to in the pages of history is Muhammad Bin Tughlak. Why? The next five minutes or so (directly proportional to the speed of your reading) will give you a fair idea:

1. I love the smell of coffee but do not like coffee. Instead, I prefer tea – my elixir of life.
2. I find French Plait cool but find it impossible to style my hair because of its length (one of the rare times I regret having long hair).
3. I love the honesty that comes with being frank. At the same time, subtleties too occupy a fair share of my adulation – well being sarcastic requires some amount of subtlety :)!
4. I am independent while at the same time I yearn to be comforted like a child.
5. I am not a romantic yet I blush when I am gifted a single red rose. (yes..... I do blush from time to time)
6. I hog like a pig. Yet I do not put on weight (touchwood), much to Aki’s disgust who always exclaims, “Where does it all go?”
7. I love the variety of colours in nail-polish but only on others’ nails.
8. I like the jingling sound of ankles and bangles. But I do not prefer wearing them myself.
   
9. I appreciate fashion but I am not willing to be a guinea pig for any experimentation.
10. I never cry during movies but I bawl my heart out while saying extended good-byes (Bhopu will never let me come to the airport with him after Sunday’s fiasco. Have to warn Aki about this :)...).
11. I love humour but not when it’s directed at my emotions.
12. I am a good listener but when it comes to speaking up for myself, gung-ho is the word.
13. Discount sales fail to incite any interest. But I get all excited like a child if it rains.
14. I love blogging but give me a topic to write about and my mind goes blank (tagging, unfortunately, comes under this particular category).
15. I can be yuxtremely sarcastic. But then, I can be yuxtremely apologetic about it as well but only to my loved ones.
16. I can be stubborn, opinionated, haughty, irritating, critical, and all the more. But I can be very accepting as well.
17. I respect the concept of marriage but am afraid of commitment thanks to insecurities galore – not sure many can accept me the way I am.

For all those non-history buffs, Muhammad Bin Tughlak was one of the kings during the Mughal era. He shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad and again from Daulatabad to Delhi in a space of two years resulting in a huge loss of life, property and time. His subjects were put through a lot of hardships because of his eccentricities and very strange ones at that.

And it was exactly for this reason that he was known as the ‘Mixture of Opposites’ :).