A
young person enters a crowded mosque or imambara through the front door a sermon
or preaching is going on. Believing that all eyes are on him, he unconsciously
touches his nose once or twice with his hand before he finds a place This is not
an inferiority complex; - only shyness. - that type which shows.
While
shyness is an embarrassment if there is awareness that it shows, an inferiority
complex is an agony. It is not fairly easy to adjust to if it begins in childhood,
mostly cultivated in the child by the parents unknowingly. It affects the personal'
the child when an adult.
It is only fair that parents are advised in detail
on the subject, which is known generally more by its name than substance. The
length of discussion will necessitate presentation to be in three separate parts.
The complex in a person is not as much a feeling of inferiority or "seeing
onself small" -as believing that others see him so. This belief
is not always true. It take a form of an obsession in rare cases if the condition
is severe originating childhood.
Flattered
Let us consider one example: A boy is flattered when a group of older
boys eng in smoking -and to him they are an 'elite group' because not many of
that age s cigarettes -"favours" him with a few puffs -the first spell
in his life -and he tries to suppress the bouts of coughing attendant with nausea.
He finds himself a happy