A World Full of Mirage

Simplicity.

A mere word now.

We understood it quite better when we were young though. When happiness was in our parents’ arms. When pleasure was the sight of a river flowing in the serenity of the early morn.  When reality was what we saw and what we perceived.
Reality, I said.

Well, when I come to think of it, I am already questioning the very existence of it. Is the world we

live in a reality or merely an illusion? Was it an illusion when we ran into our father’s arms as kids and found our happiness? Was it an illusion when we heard the birds chirping on the trees. Was it what we wanted to see, or what we perceive is a game played on our minds by an ‘Illusionist’?

Am I REAL?

Do I perceive the people around me?

Or is someone making me perceive?

Though this article is a product of mine as a consequence of watching the stupendously and very impressively well-scripted movie the Illusionist, the thought that followed is not based on fictitious grounds, rather, it is a scientific notion that I am pondering upon.
Solipsism.

Solipsism is theory in philosophy and psychiatry that boldly states that the existence of any entity other than one’s own mind is questionable and dubious. It is solely the one’s own mind that exists and sees what it perceives on its own. The world around it might or might not be an illusion. It is uncertain as it is beyond the periphery of the mind.
In a normal language, we are all victims of global schizophrenia.

The theory, however, seems to have an equal inclination towards both philosophy and science/psychiatry for me. And isn’t it?
I reckon you all will agree that everything is transient and transitory. What possible explanation could there be to the transitory nature of everything around than the fact that it is all our imagination and creation. And it vanishes as and when our mind wants it to.
So, the next time you go out to enjoy with your friends or have a moment with your family, cherish it. That’s because your mind wants you to see those things so that you cherish them throughout your lives.