It has been on my checklist for quite some time now. Hence, finally during the summer of 2013 I decided to hit the gym. Well, everyone has a different reason to join a gym. The gym phenomenon has caught the fancy of a major chunk of people these days. Everyone seems to be hitting gyms .Some to stay fit. Some to become fit. A majority stake of the pie chart goes for the ones wanting to lose weight. Finally, a decent chunk of pie for the people who want to hit the gym for the good look factor. I unfortunately fall in the last chunk of the pie .Well, there has been a transition in the idea of gym from ‘Fitness’ to ‘Overcome Imperfection to Maintain Impression’.

No matter, how shallow it may sound but the world revolves around imperfections and the human pursuit to overcome them."Imperfection is the new cool " and the coolest part is the different ways people devise to overcome them or hide them if they fail .Like hitting the gym to look good, wearing loose clothes to hide that protruding belly which almost looks like a jelly bean, looking sharp in an ill prepared presentation and lastly how can we forget the schooldays viva sessions during exams where we try so hard to hide our theory disability.

Businesses are growing and cashing in on the imperfection boom .People are ready to spend on anything that promises them to overcome a certain noticeable thing that is an apparent misfit to the society we live in. Technically, we are living in a world which has been infested with the 'superficial' parasite which will sustain and grow further by feeding on our insecurities.

Don’t you think it’s high time we give this menace a thought? What are we really trying to achieve by hiding those tiny little imperfections ? What happened to those wise words 'Never Judge A Book By Its Cover' or are they supposed to be just for literature sake?

Look around you .Everyone around might not be the one they appear to be. This does not make them a dark character of a story plot. But this is what the superficial society has done to us. Left us all lonely. You might seem to know a lot of people. But, at the end of the day it’s the impression you are in touch with and not the real person.

See the number of compatibility problems couples face after getting in a relation these days. The number of divorces has increased exponentially. People start liking each other based on the impression created by overcoming imperfections. But at the end of the day the real person inside you is not going to change which starts showing up eventually once you start spending time with a person.

Well long time ago when food was scarce we were living in an agricultural economy. Then came industrial economy when goods were scarce. This evolution has finally led us to the TRUTH ECONOMY where everything around us is a lie and there is shortage of TRUTH.