We all live in an illusion of some sort or another. Whether that illusion is love, happiness, hate, or something much smaller... we are all fooled by it at some point or another; even us realists. The reason I am choosing to write about this is due to my dad's post from yesterday. He wrote about the quote "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion".Clearly this quote is a load of bullshit, and my dad made that quite clear in his post.
That set aside, I'd like to briefly discuss some of the most common illusions that a lot of us live in. Beauty There was once a time when the beehive hairstyle was popular. Dear God, what dark times those were! However, in some people's eyes, it was beautiful (as shocking as that may be to believe). It isn't very popular now; but you can still see people walking around with them. The beehive became singer Amy Winehouse's trademark look while she was still alive! The point is; we all have different definition of beauty. So while something may be beautiful to Bob, it doesn't necessarily mean that the same thing is beautiful to George. It all rolls down to perception; once again. Love Love is an illusion no matter how you look at it. I don't think anyone really knows what it is; we just know what we THINK it is and so we carry along with it. Once again- perception. I've seen so many of my friends who are young fall into "love" and let it destroy them far more than it should. In our teenage years, I really believe it is impossible to know what love really is due to the ever-changing hormones that control us a bit. I don't think ANYONE knows love. As I mentioned above; we jut pretend to. It's just another illusion- and a hard one to break, at that. Time Time is the biggest illusion of them all; however. Time is and always has been a man-made construct- but so many fail to see it as this. As far as we're concerned, time always has been. But that's obviously not the case. We live in the illusion; however... that there will always be a tomorrow. That there will always be a second chance. That we have all the time in the world to fix our mistakes... but it's not the case. Today could be our last day; and we may not know it. It's up to us to make the best of our lives while we're here... because life could come to a screeching halt at any time. ~Maddie
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