Friday, June 3, 2011

The Pressure Is Off

What an odd sensation it is to finally be able to let go of something that has shaped our year in a not so good way. Funny how quickly we can learn to live with an elephant sitting on our ribcage and still somehow manage to get through the day to days undetected as a fraud; that is in the sense that while externally it appears as if all is well in our little world, the reality is quite the opposite. Then almost imperceptively the switch happens and in the final analysis it seems that that switch back from stress to non-stress occurs with a surprisingly seamless transition, so much so that it involves a major paradigm shift in order to realize and accept that the elephant is gone. Suddenly you can sleep unassisted by whatever vice you chose to get you through 10 months of Nuits Blanches. You can actually take deep breaths without feeling any elephantine protests. You now present your 'old' self, the truer more honest version of you to all you come into contact with, and strangely people are none the wiser.
All this goes to show that you can get away with misrepresentation after all and there is no recrimination involved. Furthermore, the ultimate reward is that you experience an incredible surge of power probably just like an actor must feel after turning in a brilliant performance.

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