Words

Inspired by recent events from my personal life, this piece is a commentary on how much importance we give to what other people think and say about us and highlights the actual worth of it, nothing. The piece includes audio recordings of participants of my age who were invited to come onto the mic and talk smack about people, judge them, praise / compliment them, confess something related to their interactions with people etc or say some of the things that they’ve been called or have been said to them (all without naming anyone in particular).

What starts off as just one or two people (very audibly) judging each other, ultimately turns into raucous noise. The chats you see on the floor and the audios are all things that have really happened and things that have actually been said.

Its true words can really hurt, but ultimately, we cannot define ourselves based on what other people say and think about us. We are our own people.

To quote a famous Hindi song: “कुछ तो लोग कहेंगे लोगों का काम है केहना | छोडो बेकार की बातों में कहीं बीत ना जाए रैना” (Translation: People will always say something or the other, it's their business to talk. Ignore it, lest the night should pass in these useless things).

Don’t worry so much about what other people have to say. They’ll keep talking. Just love yourself and be true to who you are. You make your own destiny; you define who and what you are.


The piece is 2.5 minutes long, I urge you to listen to the entire piece.