HOW TO LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE.

This title may be mindboggling to some, and some might think it’s near impossible and as always morons would think it as bullshit and pass on. So much for first impressions. In this article I will tend to tell you my theory of a dual life. And I can guaranty you it’s not what you think it is and it’s quite possible.  NO I’m not talking schizophrenia.

There are some moral truths a common person is familiar with these are imbedded in their heads or they just figure it out as the person grows up. First and foremost: YOU CAN NOT FLY! (Well except airplanes and stuff). Second is: YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY KIND OF SUPER POWERS! The third is: YOU MOSTLY DO NOT GET WHAT YOU WANT!

So if are told to make a small box in your head and put all those moral truths in it and throw it in the Mariana trench, can you do that?  When you are done with that please read on.

In my thoughts, the person who can dream and can imagine can have a second life. That includes 99% of the world’s population so almost every one can have a second life. Dreams and imaginations are the mediums of reaching and making a second life. There are certain things you can’t, shouldn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t do in reality. But there are no boundaries to be broken in one’s dreams. One’s imagination is different than others. It depends on the person you are, things you do, the things you think about, your memories, expectations, your plans, your dreams, your worries, your nightmares, your past, present, future. One can find deep forests in between grey skyscrapers, wonderlands with yellow purple nameless flowers, we have forever opened doors to worlds that are waiting to be made, recognized, experienced, cherished, shared! Your mind can be the only guide book you will need! It doesn’t matter if you know where to go or not. You will always know where to go. It’s the only place where being wrong is right and well being right is also right! It’s a place where you can make skyscrapers out of smoke. You can just tell a girl “love u” without fearing the consequences. It’s also a place for rejoicing with old friends; you can have endless conversation with people you know. And people you don’t. The person you met at the subway, but never exchanged a word. You can walk endless roads holding hands and not fearing the other person will let go. You can plan a family, kids and even sharing your retirement salary with that stranger you only exchanged a glance.

 It’s a place where every kid is a superhero, and everyman is the king of his kingdom.

Every man is a king of his kingdom….

No matter what happens you should not lose your throne. In simpler words, you should not do things that lowers yourself self respect and end up losing yourself and there by thinking that you are not appropriate for the place! YOU AND ONLY YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHAT YOU IMAGINE.

Dreams are glaciers of memories waiting to melt and flood though your mind. They can be called the uncontrolled visions that one has. It’s like a movie being played where you are the director. The beauty of dreams is that it plays itself and it takes up situations, characters (real and imaginary), events & everything going in your mind and puts them in one place. I had a glimpse in a dream once of a friend parking a cycle (I don’t know if it was his or not!! But who cares!) under a small dark bridge in Madrid. I figured it to be Spain because of the bricks on the roads were same as I have known to be used in small alley ways in Spain and places like that! Just that I have never been to Spain, neither had the friend I saw!!

When you are in are in a dream you automatically forget all the moral truths and most importantly you don’t realize that it’s a dream till you get out of it. The fantasy becomes your reality.

I had nightmares of falling. You can think I am a weirdo on reading the next line but it’s true: I like falling from buildings (in dreams of course!) it’s not like I would like to suicide but I like how the dream go on and the after effect of it. Let me explain a bit: imagine you are falling from a high building without any reason but you are just falling! As soon as you reach the ground, you wake up. The following thoughts come to your mind: I JUST FELL OF A BUIDING! HOW THE HELL AM I STILL ALIVE! IT WAS JUST A DREAM!

I like it because it’s kind of a death like experience just without any actual danger (if you don’t consider sleepless nights as a danger that is…). Just to know how it would be to die.

Imaginations are pretty controlled. If you decide to go right you will go right. When you imagine something with utmost concentration you leave your conscious and enter into a trance, where control is reduced considerably.

As one’s reality influences one’s second life, one’s second life also influences one’s reality! You can’t help the moral truths coming in your way in reality though.

Here is a trick I learnt from a friend and it really works: They say life is always unexpected so we have to expect the unexpected! In other words if you want positive results, imagine it to be negative! Life would work its way and present you POSITIVE RESULTS!

Then again someone will say that if you surround yourself with positive thoughts, positive things will happen to you.

So it’s not about me or someone else telling you. It’s about YOU.

THERE IS MORE TO THIS WORLD AND ALSO OUR RELAITY.

 YOU JUST HAVE TO CLOSE YOUR EYES!  

                                                                                                                      Prithwish Patra.