It's called life or something like it!

Chaiti Narula

We are complicated people on earth. We are torn between idealism, and quintessential -selfism! People often appear to be something and are really something else. And we all do this all the time. Most people I come across end up 'people pleasing' their way through lives. Are we really here to make people happy and seek approvals? Its a simple question. Asked before way too many times and I'm not even sitting here asking something extra-ordinary. It has been asked all the time before. But we all forget the simplicity of this simplicity!
Why is it so difficult for us to let people be? We all have mastered the art of getting judgemental. In an attempt to not allow someone else to get judgemental about ourselves, we forget who we really are. We make people target audiences and sell ourselves are products for them to think we're the best buys!
You are what you are. In this maze of societal expectations, peer pressures, traditionally accepted behavioural predispositions, we lose ourselves.
And one day we wake up to realise we are unhappy. The reason for this unhappiness - the aforesaid reasons. We have really not spent enough time knowing ourselves since we are all so busy in a rut. We have not spent time to understand and receive and listen to the outward world in its true sense since we are so busy talking about ourselves. We have just not been able to dance our hearts content because we are so busy dancing to the tune of societal expectations and mollycoddling ourselves to what the world wants to see ourselves as.
We are who we are. We must live because life is here...right here in ourselves...we are life. We must do what we want to because we feel like it and it makes us happy. Not only happy...comfortably happy. We must earn enough money to sustain but let not be vending machines and forget to appreciate simple pleasures in life. Pleasures don't come out of hanging out in the most elite circles, or being an investment banker, or driving the latest Merc. Pleasure lies in coming home to someone who you can hug and find the world your seeking for those moments, it lies in taking care of humans and animals selflessly, it lies in watching a baby grow, it lies in having a snug meal with family at home and it lies in finding strangers who make a connection.

And that according to me is - Life or something like it! -) And I want to live it that way. Don't forget to dream in the process, don't forget to actualise our potentials and aspire to be someone. Just don't allow others to make you what they want you to be.

Its life or something like it- my best game, my biggest passion!