Mr. Darcy

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"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."

"Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

"And which of the two do you call my little recent piece of modesty?"

"The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting. The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance... "

This is one of my favourite speeches in Pride and Prejudice. I love the Mr.Darcy character. He is simply perfect! Other people in the book have accused him of being arrogant, Miss Lizzy included. I have never felt he was arrogant from the start of the book; proud maybe, but not arrogant. Not even in his introduction scene at that ball. I don’t want to start describing my love for this book and Mr. Darcy because that is not what I wanted to write about. There are more than enough opinions out there already.

There are a lot of people around us like that Mr. Bingley. Hell, I’m like him sometimes. We tend to take pride in certain things that are not particularly “laudable”. Like how Bingley talks of his way of writing here in the speech above. When people say things like that to me, taking pride in things that are definitely not something to be proud of, I so badly want to snap back at them! But, it’s not a nice thing and it is not worth the trouble I would be in later. A few real examples, from real people I know....

“I can NOT wake up before nine in the morning” What happened that day when you had an interview? You did not sleep the night before, I suppose, so you needn’t “wake up before nine”??

“I’m too lazy!!” Yeah you are. You should go see someone about it. It is really, really annoying. It is even more annoying when you say it as if you have won something! As if you are doing us all a favour being lazy!!

“I don’t get angry that often but when I do it’ll be a pandemonium!!” Do you even know what that word means? You get angry ten times everyday so I have been facing ten “pandemoniums” a day, everyday since I know you! Jerk!!

“I get mad when people drive slow...” “I...”

And sooo many other sentences that start with ‘I’ and are centred around ‘I’. This is one of the few things I so badly want to bitch about, but I dare not. Because, like I said before, it is not a nice thing to do and it would only make me feel bad later. Moreover, I'm one of them too! It is simply in the human nature to tend to be attracted that which is generally not good. Simply, we like being a little bad and we also like making fun of the good ones. And we are proud of it sometimes because we are a little afraid that someone might point it out to us. So we ourselves declare under the facade of "confidence" and get away with it.

So, done bitching, I'm done retrospecting. Now wishing - I just wish there are more Darcys and less Bingleys around! World would be so much simpler and life a lot easier..!!

I wish I was like Darcy...true to myself and more importantly, true to everyone else.