Showing Off

This is a kind of behaviour which goes with children or adolescents, but even adults and aged persons cannot refrain from it. There is no particular definition of showing-off. A person may try to show off in a variety of circumstances. He may imitate the voice of some person, or the posture of sitting or standing of another, or he may talk and laugh in the manner another person does, consciously or unconsciously. He may try to pass for a rich man, an educated man, a talented man, a courageous man and so on. Such instances are countless. It has to be admitted, of course, that showing off and passing for something or somebody else are not one and the same things. One may pass for some type of person once or for a period. When one shows off a parti­cular advantage or achievement, one may flaunt the same in front of others very conspicuously till every­body gets to recognise his good luck or his exalted position.

In such a case, that is, where a person is in possession of something which is really to be praised or which is beyond the capacity of others to get, the showing-off, though falling in the category of bad manners and exhibitionism, is not, however, materially wrong or improper. A person gets a good job or a new dress and he gives himself airs. If such behaviour is continued over a reasonable period till the novelty of the situation wears off, there may not be much to be said in criticism. There are, never­theless, situations when some people try to show off something which does not properly belong to them, and in such cases those people should be put wise about the futility of such duplicity. If they correct themselves on the advice of others, they may not depart too much from truly correct behaviour.

The training in good behaviour must be given in childhood and as the child grows into youth and subsequently into manhood, the training of the early years may persist, and he may not be tempted to act in a manner which is not at all suited to him, or which is alien to him. It may, therefore, be con­cluded that showing-off is not dnly regarded as bad manners but it is also improper and may sometimes border on illegality or the ridiculous. The will to show off may be traced to a person's desire to get prominence and this desire is ventilated in a perver­ted form because some real worth of the said person which could have been developed has not been properly brought forth.

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