Low-key is considered weak

A while ago, I wrote about how boasting is inherently accepted in the Indian society, and I will explain the reason in this post. Actually, the Indian society is built in a way that everyone is okay with bragging, and if you try to act low-key they're actually going to consider you as incapable or a failure.

I was visiting my hometown this one time and and a few of neighbors asked about what I do. I, low-key, replied that I do something online and do not need money from my parents anymore. And they started thinking that I am not taking things seriously and just fooling around. I got to know this later on through some other people.

So now, whenever I am talking to my people from around my village, I do not play low-key. I just tell them exactly what I am doing or something like that because if I joke, they do not understand the pun and take things seriously.

Funny, but true.