Who are we if not the stories we tell ourselves? It's hard for all of us and sometimes we felt like we couldn't do anything at all or maybe we just didn't know where to start. But when you take away all of life's distractions, you're left faced with the question we avidly avoid, 'what am I really doing here?'
Who are we if not the stories we tell ourselves? It's hard for all of us and sometimes we felt like we couldn't do anything at all or maybe we just didn't know where to start. But when you take away all of life's distractions, you're left faced with the question we avidly avoid, 'what am I really doing here?' We think everyone has it down pat and we're still trying to figure it out. We watch movies and hope that life is as fluid and calculated as it is on screen, either this or that, with a clear outcome of each decision they make.
It's like looking into a mirror and seeing how you'd want everything to be. And we hear things that hit our heartstrings and watch stories with pieces of us in it. And we look at it as a guide to life when really, it's just an altered version of it. Life is so different from books and still we wish it were the same clear, logical, organized. But We can't just wait around for life to happen to us, we have to seek it. We have these expectations from movies and books and we try to look for answers in them.
But ultimately, the only way to get through this thing we call life is to actively participate in it. We can sit around and feel bad or blame ourselves for things we've never told them. But in the end, life doesn't stop for anybody. It's the only way to find out who we really are, and what we wanna do with our time. And even if we fail, what better way is there to live?
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Shalini Bandopadhyay #Fanpost
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