We human beings, all of us are very good at acting. Figured out what I am talking about? You are awesome! Surprised and thinking what this could be? Do not worry! It is not that you are not awesome! Maybe my way of simply throwing a conclusive statement right at your face tipped you off. This writing from now on will have perhaps some meaning if it did though! If it did not, I am going to write maybe another piece no one would really care about! Fingers crossed!
Think about it. Have you ever been so desperately trying to win something, anything? You have tried to win it in absolutely every way possible. But when the time came, you failed! You failed just for a little margin and there is no one who you can blame for your loss but only yourself. Just due to heat of the moment, you missed something for a second or a millisecond and the failure hugged you once again!
Your family was expecting you to overcome this odd, and you failed. What do you do? Go home and immediately tell your family that you lost? Maybe not always! You put up a good show. You hide the fact that you are probably devastated by the loss. You show that you tried your best and probably made it there too! Wow! Great acting!
Let us assume that you had a love marriage. Now we all know love marriages have two parts. Pre and post. In most cases, pre-marriage love is soooooo wonderful. You see a lot of dreams(most of which are day-dreams!). Your partner is definitely the best partner anyone can have in the whole world. Spending the rest of your life with your partner makes you feel like the luckiest person on earth. Then you marry that person(which happens rarely though!). And after marriage, which is the post stage, you start to see a different version of your partner!
All that charm, all that love is. . . . . .not anymore the way it used to be! Well of course there might be various reasons for that, let us not go there. Let us now also assume that you married your beloved over the person your parents chose for you. You go to visit your parents after quite some time of your marriage. Do you let them know that you might be regretting your decision? That is absurd, right?! Besides, you chose that person, what can you tell them! So you put up a show, you are the happiest with your beloved! Impressive acting!
Since we already talked about love, let us talk about complications of it, a little bit. We all(most of us) have felt true love at some stage of our life for someone. Could be once, could even be more! Whoever said true love can only be felt once was so mesmerized(or bamboozled!) by first true love that s/he could never feel it again! If you have felt true love for someone, you know how hard it is to let that go! But there are certain situations in which you can not do anything at all. There are certain walls between lovers and love that are too strong to even beat the most beautiful and purest feeling – financial mismatch, stereotypical chains, racial differentiation, religion and many more.
There are many solutions for most of them but the last one, is a huge drawback even for societies that are too advanced! For any of the challenges, singular or multiple, you and your beloved decide to separate. It hurts so bad. Or maybe even better, you decide to push away the one you truly love because you know one or more of these differentiations will never allow your beloved a happy normal life with you. How painful can that be? It is one of the deadliest feelings in the world. But yet you put up a show before the rest of the world and also your beloved, that you are fine! You show to be leading a perfectly normal and maybe happy life. Way to go, actor/actress!
Who doesn’t have dreams in life? Almost everyone, right? Ambition is a very strong word and the feeling, moot meaning of it is very powerful which might not be for everyone. But dreams are simple. They are beautiful and most of the times as expected(because they are goddamn dreams!), are unrealistically unreal! But that is why they are dreams and we always want to live them. People dream different things at different ages. At a very early age, people dream something very adventurous and highly ambitious. At young age, they dream a bit more realistic but still aim for the moon. After they get married and have child(ren), their world suddenly change. Their own wishes and dreams are not anymore the main purpose of their lives.
Raising the child(ren) and fulfilling all their dreams become the priority of parents. Somewhere a father has been saving fund for years, to buy the audi he always dreamt about. Suddenly his daughter gets chance into a great institution which is highly expensive too. What does the father do? He pretends of never having any dream of a car and spends it all on the child’s study! Somewhere a mother always dreamt of a career in choreography. She gets a call to fulfill the dream. At the same time, her son gets scholarship to study abroad and needs his mother to go live with him. We all know the mother would ignore the call without a moment of hesitation and book tickets to travel with her son. She never even admired the aesthetics of choreography, did she! What an act!
No matter how privileged you are, how great a life you might be having or how much you are prioritized within your surrounding; people always feel a certain void. The feeling of something missing, loneliness, not being worthy are some common issues with youth these days. And these lead to exhaustion, depression, anxiety, frustration and such. True, there are many valid reasons for such feelings too. But there is barely anyone you will see out there showing it. Feels like you are the only one who is facing these? Well, if you are acting a happy and normal life outside, why can’t they! So, acting wins the day.
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