Are you real or living in a virtual reality world? Are your strings being pulled by some giant alien puppet master whose intelligence we cannot even fathom? Are we all part of a great big game for his or her entertainment?
Do you feel like you have been here before and done the same thing before? Does the pattern of your life seem all too familiar?
Sometimes when my imagination gets the better of me I wonder if I am real, or just a pawn in someone else’s grand design. I don’t mind if the someone else is God, but God help me – what if it is some alien intelligence that is pulling my strings and making me do the things I do.
Sometimes my imagination gets the better of me and I wonder if this is so. Sometimes I question my faith.
Am I real, or just some phony charlatan – an imposter in someone else’s world – a joke – a comic character?
Most of the time I take myself very seriously, and firmly believe that I am real, but I still have doubts. What about you?
Do you question your lack of emotional involvement sometimes? Do you wonder where your passion and lust for life has gone? Do you sometimes feel more like a spectator than a real participant in the game of life?
I have so many questions, and so few answers. How about you? Do you know who you are and what your purpose in life is, or do you question your very existence?
I want answers. How about you?
Sometimes I let my imagination run wild and imagine that I can reinvent myself – make myself into some one truly wonderful like a guru or a prophet, but then I wake up and it is just the same old me doing the same old things.
Why the need to question myself? Why do I feel there has to be more to life? Why do I sometimes question my faith?
This is not a game I am playing. This is my life, as I know it. This is as real as it is going to get for me. What about you, do you question yourself? Do you wonder if you are real?
It’s reached a point where I am writing a novel about a young man who questions if he is really a prophet or a charlatan. I don’t have all the answers. Maybe you can help by adding your thoughts to whether we are real. If you have better answers or words than me I could always change the ending of the novel and give you credit. Maybe we could all begin again and discover a new reality.
Hi, this is Arthur Levine. Please leave your thoughts in the comment section on whether we are real.
Hi Arthur, Where does one begin? - I shall start by saying I am a born again Christian- and for me this was the first taste of reality. I became born again when I was 19- prior to that, I had an unhappy childhood ) my mother left when i was three) and a misguided early marriage at age 16 and then three children by 21- which ended after 8 years. During that time I had found Christ or should say He made me a aware to call on Him and He was ready and waiting for my call. Even though I knew Christ my marriage still fell apart due to my husbands unfaithfulness. I ended up in a bad situation for three years then on my own for a further 7 years then remarried and have been for some 20 years now.
ReplyDeleteSince my conversion I have been on a long journey of faith ever since.
During one period after my marriage breakdown I had found myself in a unsavory situation and then later to find my way out of that. During that period, I experienced what I called, A stranger in a strange place. I realized I couldn't live a dead life, one I had died to in baptism and being born again, to return to that former life which couldn't exist. I felt i was starting to loose my identity. I didn't know who I was. Then I wrote on a piece of paper this poem called stranger in a strange place where God showed me I couldn't go back only forward and I needed to get back on the path (His path) again. This I did and through many trials I eventually found my way back to my fathers loving arms and protection and guidance. It has taken many years of constant trials of Faith and eventual evidence of my faithful endurance through those times- to really know my God and who I am. I don't belong here. I am only passing through. I am a stranger and a pilgrim like Gods word says in, Hebrews 11:13 to 16 Yours sincerely- Hope this helps, BrendaVN
Thanks for your comment Brenda. It does help to know other people's experiences.
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Are we real? Yes. I think we are as real as we make ourselves out to be. If we live with integrity then our character remains constant. If others impose their projections on us we can refuse their definition of us. In fact I like projections thrown on me, I search inside to hang on to the real me and it only makes me stronger. I think life changes occur constantly, nothing can remain the same. I am in my forties and I can still sense the child of eight in me. There's the real me and I always know I'll be there for myself. Philosophy, philosophy, just one individual's opinion. I love to write. I write about anything. I've published two articles, one fiction short story and one non-fiction. I'm currently into speculative fiction. I guess that's the eight year old in me I was talking about. Well, cheers for now.
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Are we real? Yes. I think we are as real as we make ourselves out to be. If we live with integrity then our character remains constant. If others impose their projections on us we can refuse their definition of us. In fact I like projections thrown on me, I search inside to hang on to the real me and it only makes me stronger. I think life changes occur constantly, nothing can remain the same. I am in my forties and I can still sense the child of eight in me. There's the real me and I always know I'll be there for myself. Philosophy, philosopy, just one individual's opinion. I love to write. I write about anything. I've published two articles, one fiction short story and one non-fiction. I'm currently into speculative fiction. I guess that's the eight year old in me I was talking about. Well, cheers for now.
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Thanks for your insight Bonnie.
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Arthur