Whats a STATUS...Maybe just a Perception?

By status, I dont mean your net worth. Although there was a time when STATUS = $$$$$ but lets take a modern day look at the definition.

To me in an everyday - regular - mundane life, its about the status that we update and keep tab on in the virtual world. Be it Facebook, Orkut or Twitter, with the influx of social media everything has become perception driven. Its about how cool, witty, profound, crazy or fun you want to come across. Its creating a social personality for yourself which in real does not exist. And this in return becomes your social net worth or as I call it - your STATUS.

The "whats on your mind" must have made a lot of us wonder what actually is on our mind....the answer could be NOTHING but how many of us are truthful enough to put it up?

Be it work or our lives outside work or our lives on social networking sites, we always strike to create the RIGHT perception for ourselves. We want others to be believe we are the best thing that could have happened to planet earth. And soon enough, we start living 2 lives - 1) as the world knows us and 2) the real self that we actually are (who by now has been overshadowed by pretence that makes us sound larger than life)

But hey aren't we forgetting that no one is perfect, no one is uber cool, no one is oh-so-intelligent and no one has a supremely "happening" life...all this is subjective and all this is exaggerated! So why are we living a lie??

Anyway, whatever said and done, experience says perceptions matter (atleast at my workplace). Not that i'm advocating its good or bad or whether thats the way to be... its just something that needs to be balanced. Its something that should not be the end all or be all of everything we say or do.

So the next time when you update your status (perception driven or not) remember whats REAL for you and how you want your STATUS to sound :)