The Art of Favouritism
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We'd better stick to the pros of everything. Save favouritism for a time more appropriate...
Favouritism is the word. Always a bonus for the receiver but not quite a pleasure for those who observe it. Especially when you happen to live under the same roof. It’s a boost to somebody’s ego. Even takes the person by unexpected favours. Sometimes spoils him rotten. It’s not an alien word to any of us. We all have our own favourites. Our likings for things, our taste of music, our choices of clothes and food, our selection of books and the like. They are almost worth rating. To place them in whatever position you would like and keep anything on the top according to your preference. There are less chances that the other things that do not win your favour would be harmed. At the least they would suffer a little setback.
But we also have our favourite people. Those we favour all the time and try to defend whether they are right or wrong. Favourite celebrities, writers, singers, or authors are fine. We can always choose some from among their works. There’s no possibility that every artist’s work would suit our liking. There are less chances you would hurt another human being because your favourite performers would always be on stage.
Consciously or unconsciously, favouritism follow us all the way, to every nook and corner, wherever we may set out feet upon. Beginning from our own homes and families. It’s quite a dangerous kind of liking sometimes. Even among our circle of friends. A favourite friend, a favourite sibling, a favourite child, a favourite colleague, a favourite student and the list goes on. Maybe it’s okay to have a favourite somebody. But there are certain limits for everything in life, some place where you have to draw a line, which is why for anything in life there are pros and cons. But we’d better stick to the pros lest we end up reaping a negative point.
The sentiments of many people are hurt because of favouritisms. And it’s probably due to the lack of balance we fail to keep in our dealings, words and actions, letting our favours on our favourite people show without limits. You do things over and over again for that certain person without giving a second thought to what others might feel, the others who are as deserving as the ones who gain from our favours.
There is a favourite child of many parents. There probably is nothing wrong there. The child could be extra special for reasons best known to them. But the heavy display of affections on that particular child especially when other siblings are witnessing it every other time, do not really make a family grow. There are things that the rest begin to wonder. There are things that make them think and feel “Am I really that bad?”
And there are favourite students of many teachers. Sometimes these favourite students of theirs get more attention than the others who equally have the right to get the best attention on their academic performance from the teachers concerned. Or a favourite staff of a boss who gets more than his share because he has been favoured. Favouritism just isn’t fair. Not fair when among all the deserving people, only a few gets more than they actually ought to get.
When favouritism becomes a root which brings misunderstandings, it isn’t a nice word anymore. Your favourite somebody gets pampered and spoilt. And sometimes without a right he thinks that he has the right to do many wrongs because in the end, he knows he would somehow win the favour of somebody.
At best, we’d better maintain a balance with our favourite people or else it finds a small way of destruction and cause more harm than we bargain for. Let’s make favouritism a beautiful word by always keeping it in the right perspective.
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