Five from Ten Fingers

1. In the realm of writing, if you find yourself passionate about two or more subjects simultaneously, loving each equally and unwilling to abandon any, then I must say you are an exceedingly fortunate person! Congratulations, my friend! And at the very same time, you are also profoundly unfortunate! Now please return those congratulations. Ha ha ha!

If you're passionate about multiple subjects and can properly identify all of them, you are truly fortunate, because while most people struggle their entire lives without finding even a single passion, you've discovered several. Why unfortunate? Because even if you wanted to, you simply cannot pursue everything simultaneously in one lifetime—it's an incredibly arduous, almost impossible task. Therefore, deciding which passion to build your life upon becomes extraordinarily difficult for you. Many people go nearly mad trying to choose such a path!

Let me venture a bold statement here. In the entire world, in the field of literature, only one person has ever been truly perfect and masterful in every direction simultaneously. That superhuman being was Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from him, I know of no one else who achieved such universality. Now the decision is yours.

I'd like to share a quote from my beloved detective character, Sherlock Holmes. As you know, Holmes would adopt various disguises for his investigative work. He would so completely embody these disguises that distinguishing him from the original person became virtually impossible. Once, after catching a criminal while in disguise, the criminal was so astonished that he told Holmes, 'I've never seen such a great actor even in the movies!' Holmes replied with utmost seriousness, 'Yes, the stage would undoubtedly miss a Sherlock Holmes!'

2. I believe: once a deceiver, always a deceiver! This can also be said another way—in families where deception runs in the bloodline, most members somehow acquire this trait! Whatever you do in life, never associate with deceivers, no matter how talented, successful, or closely related they may be. Whether your lover, girlfriend, boyfriend, or any close person—yes, remove them from your life right now, by whatever means necessary! To achieve their goals, they can do absolutely anything under any circumstances. They can turn you into a puppet for their show, then suddenly declare, 'I don't even know that person!' It takes them less than a second to say such things! So be cautious before you regret it.

3. Only by staying in Bangladesh will you discover that living abroad is also considered a qualification. 'What does your son do?' 'My son lives in such-and-such country.' Understand the situation! I've noticed another amusing aspect. The subjects and job sectors that people in our country constantly criticize—without knowledge, without understanding, based on hearsay—for some strange reason, these very people are the first to desperately embrace those same subjects and jobs!

The reason for such hypocrisy, as it appears to me, is this: continuously receiving wrong ideas about appropriate subjects and job sectors, remaining stuck in those misconceptions, ignorance about these fields, lack of the qualifications needed to excel in them, and last but not least... this suicidal behavior: 'Everyone trolls it, so I do too, even though I don't understand what I'm trolling!' Add to this our national character trait of 'hypocrisy'! One of my cousins, while studying at BUET, held a very high position in a socialist party. Due to his loyalty to the party, he repeatedly endured police beatings, made his parents cry, regularly had his face on newspaper front pages, cursed capitalism in the most obscene language and encouraged everyone else to curse it too... and much more! What happened next? Yes, he's now settled in America with his entire family! He went there for higher studies after his bachelor's degree and never returned.

Have you noticed something? Most of those who constantly troll various people and subjects belong to the category of losers? They themselves can't achieve much in life, and when others achieve something, they can't tolerate it either.

4. If someone behaves very normally after the death of someone very close to them, most likely one of three things has happened:

First: Perhaps they have broken down completely. In extremely abnormal mental states, people sometimes behave even more normally than necessary.

Second: They might behave this way because they cannot suddenly comprehend what has happened. Not everyone can handle such a shock.

Third: Perhaps this is their true nature, which they had skillfully concealed all this time! They were merely waiting for the person to be buried. Their lifelong concern was never the beloved person's death but rather the son/daughter, land, money left behind—and now they stand at the perfect moment to claim it all. You'd be amazed to learn that this person could be someone you never could have imagined in such a light. It could be your mother's own brother or sister, uncle, aunt—even a blood relative. Believe me, sometimes when a person dies, they tear away the masks from the hearts of the remaining family members, revealing characters so ugly and filthy that had the deceased seen these people's true faces while alive, they would have died much earlier from sheer grief!

5. Joking around, sarcasm, putting someone down... and sense of humor are definitely not the same thing. Even though we know this very well, we still make mistakes—intentionally or unintentionally. In the name of humor, we constantly mock our friends. We don't even realize when, in the name of fun, we end up insulting someone older than us or superior in intelligence and position. And nowadays, I see that putting others down has become a kind of art! People hurl disparaging remarks at others—behind their backs or to their faces—at such personalities that you'd think they went to primary school together and played marbles wearing shorts in childhood! Ridiculous! Always remember: someone superior to you in position, knowledge, intelligence, or education might at best be friendly toward you without any reason, but for them to be your friend, there must be some reason. Small people mistake friendly behavior for friendship. Without any reason, your hand can at most reach the great person's hand, never their shoulder.

So what I was saying—whether you know joking around, having fun, and such things doesn't matter much; not knowing them is fine too. More important than all that is what level your sense of humor is at. If you know how to joke within limits, good; if you don't know, no harm—just don't do it when unnecessary. Sense of humor is something that proves useful in almost every area of life. We all know the story of Einstein and his driver to some extent. Just think—what level was that driver's sense of humor! Actually, what fortune that driver had! Just being able to keep oneself around an Einstein makes so many things happen naturally! Yes, knowing how to maintain that position is a tremendous art that must be mastered!