What If Our Lives Are Just a Reality Show?

By Srijani Jana, BA Psychology Hons ,2nd Year

Edited and Designed by Mannat ,BA Psychology Hons ,2nd Year

Have you ever wondered that maybe we have been acting all this time without actually knowing the “real” audience? No, don't roll your eyes at me! Hear me out, I may have theory. You must have heard the famous phrase “ life is a stage and we are all actors”. What if it's actually true?

Maybe that's why we keep measuring our worth through approval,criticism and point of views. This idea is strangely familiar isn't it, because at the end of the day we all are acting for someone else's approval. Let's take social media as an example and let's admit that no one is fully honest on it. That's acting.

Maybe every year is a new season,with new characters and a different plot and every silence is just an advertisement taking a break from the show. And every time we suddenly seem to forget what we were actually supposed to do, maybe that's just an edit! They say our destinies are already written. Maybe that's true , after all shows are scripted. Every hesitation, every outburst, all scripted but felt in real time. And what if it's not ghosts that we feel or see but the creators working backstage? Crazy right?

Maybe the scariest part isn't that we are being watched, but that wehave learned the script so well that we don't dare to even question anymore. And yet,somewhere between the costume altercations and forgotten cues, there are moments that don'tfeel rehearsed at all, when we love without calculating, when we laugh at the most unfunnythings.

So, dearest reader, do you dare to feel something unscripted, even when no one is watching?