Mass Mentality

The golden four years of my BTech life is nearing the end. These years have given me something which is equivalent to what I had learnt in the earlier 18 years. While introspecting I found myself on a very different platform in the last few weeks. I found what it means to be odd one out, may be for the right or the wrong reason. Then I could identify what is mass mentality. Fortunately or unfortunately I used to have similar thought as the so called masses. So it was not possible for me to have an insight as to what the person in front of me was going through when he was being forced upon to do something. Though it was a forceful act for him, for me it was a genuine act.
Some of the instances which I later realized was, when we forced few of the persons to pay for a party thrown for our juniors. We were unable to know his problems as we were not facing them. It is really something which I would like to learn to cope with.
Another thing to note is that most of the persons supposedly in the mass do not share exactly the same view as the dominant person in the group. They simply agree either because they do not want to be under any pressure or for the sake of the friend.
It is really so difficult to make a choice between what you really want to do and what people want you to do! Some times it is better to keep the friends’ wishes but what is the real time solution when any friend becomes very demanding. For the sake of your friendship neither you can throw him out of the scene, even if you are capable of doing that, nor can you always suppress your own feelings.
Lets see what comes out as the solution………….