Dummy Identity!
I am sure you must be having some interpretation about the above picture. You are free to choose your own but mine is that there are two people, out of which one is trying to hide behind a predefined structured identity or atleast impersonating it.
The story is about modern social life, where we are connected through various social media platforms and getting updated about what others are doing in their life.
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But it sounds fair till the point where it was about getting in connection with others and getting to know how they are. But it has been exploited to an extent that where you start feeling that you too have to do the same.
Let me give an example here, back then when I entered into college, everything was new and there were many things to explore everyday, a whole new life right?. I started using Facebook, as any normal person I will be using it to connect with my friends and family, putting updates about what I am doing, putting photos of the things we do, trips etc. But then came a point where I genuinely started to feel that I have to put updates there and then people’s reaction to them, what kind of comment they have to make about it and all. Just imagine, what if you get stuck into that cycle and start showing the world which you actually aren’t, this is what I have called DUMMY IDENTITY , where you feel a constant urge to show something to the world even if you don’t follow that in real life.
Because in real life humans do different experiments, pick & choose what suits them or what they fit into and deal with raw conditions but these platforms force (kind of ) us to pretend as if we are in the state of perfection.
Another aspect is that if you are really happy in life, does it really need to be put in the way, it is being. Think about it?.
“Show what you really are, Not what they expect you to be”.
