We all have different realities; we experience different things, we might try to understand someone elses pain or joy, but we will never actually feel or live what it is that they experienced

This thought has been with me ever since I was little; it was an idea that stayed with me and one, which I always think about. It is a scary thought, to feel like I’m trapped in my reality and that no one will ever understand what I live or understand me, for that matter. Even in my reality I feel like many times I am not living what is real. We all use useful fictions, we lie to ourselves to make our lives easier, but the only people we are fooling are ourselves. Each person possesses their own useful fictions that helped them make their reality different.

The idea of living an unexamined live shows that often not even our lives are real; when was the last time anyone sat down and thought and analyzed their lives or the person they were becoming? I have done it, and it is daunting, to sit and stare at nothing and think about what my life is turning into. We live our lives many times not thinking about what is that we do, we go through the same routine, following what others do and what are parents have taught us, but often forgetting what we want. I know that if I ever really did what I wanted, I would most likely just go and explore places in the world that are completely remote, but because of my reality, the one I created for myself I will never do that. My reality is one where I know I will go to college, I will have a decent job and maybe get married and have kids, and I will be left with my family’s inheritance and fall into the routine.

My belief is that we will always belong to our own realities, which we create, and that no one will ever live understand these. I believe that even our own realities are hard to understand for ourselves, since many times we are not even living what is real and just live under this bubble of fictions, I believe that we need to change what is real and what is not in our own lives, despite the fear that it may create.