Emotions sometimes seem so unnecessary. The thoughts, the fears, the assumptions, the pre-suppositions, the questions which play with our thought processes and create an unnecessary noise, distract silence and keep our minds constantly busy. Not to forget  the need for ‘dramatisation’ that a normal person is taught from his childhood. When a person is hurt, his first reaction should be a cry of pain or a cry for help. Instead,  it is an expression of anger, disgust, or mere vulnerability. When  one hears a happy news one has been expecting since long, the obvious reaction should be a display of delight, or an outburst of joy, however the first reaction is to seek appreciation for  whatever good that has occurred. These are the curtains that hide us from ourselves. This need for appreciation, to compare, fear of embarrassment, is what complicates our lives the most. Why aren’t we taught to live our life as simply as possible, instead of being given lessons on how to uncomplicate it? As children, why are we made to believe in the fear of the dark, instead of the glorious miracle of light?

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There are people who live their entire life from across the curtain, never trying to find what lies across it,  just because they think it is normal that way, and no one wants to be called abnormal. Actually they are mistaken because it is just very common to make a safe choice over making a difference. We are taught to first make a choice between what is harder and what is easier, above the choice of what is right and what is not. Drinking a half- empty glass of water is a  common choice we make, even though we thirst for a glassful. Just because, the half- filled glass stands right near your hand on the table, and the jug lies across the room.
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But then there are people amongst us, who are intrigued by what lies across the curtain, because they have tried to hear the voice from within, although not very clearly through the chorus of voices and people swarming like a family of bees around them. But even they lack the passion to look beyond the material world.
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Then there are those who choose merely to play their roles as men and women, follow the rules of the universe, and pace the planet as monotonously as are the rotations of our mother earth.
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But  those  who have searched for not only what lies on the other side but also the reason for the very existence of this curtain are the most uncommon. When you find the reason for the existence of that curtain, is when you truly discover the realization of why its superficial existence isn’t even remotely essential for living or for a life of truth. And not just pretence.
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Eshani Sathe is a student, a Kathak dancer, a blogger and celebrates her passionate connect with life by writing endlessly, tirelessly

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