"Appearances Can be Deceptive"- Moumita Akuria

 

'Appearances can be deceptive'. We all have heard this proverb time and again. Some of the similar proverbs are 'All that glitters are not gold' or maybe ' Don't judge a book by its cover' and many more. People have realized these proverbs through various perspectives of their lives. But still, at this point, I have just come across another such perspective.

A subconscious mind is very powerful. It's even active when the conscious mind is sleeping. You're seeing the boy in front of you partying, working, travelling, joking, laughing and everything else with a smile spread across his face. Now and then you see his photos and posts on social media with several hashtags and emoji, and you're sitting back in your room wondering why the hell your life is not gleeful as his! Exotic food and delicacies placed on fancy china, the faces lit up in happiness, is what you see in the posts. But who knows what darkness is hidden behind those lit up faces! You're crying and lamenting in the house thinking why is your life a mess! Whereas there he goes posting confident pictures of him while he's doing an internship. But he is confident enough to fake a confident picture. There he is joking and gossiping all around, but God knows why is he constantly shaking his legs and tapping his fingers. And now there is a festival around, he's posting selfies with his family, but why do you get to hear shouting in the middle of the night from his house?

Now you're just busy lamenting over your life, creating more tangles instead of untangling, and suddenly you hear the news, sending a chill right up your back, freezing you from the tip of your head to the toes, numbing you for few minutes before you realize what has happened. People you see around are very good actors. What appears is not always real and what is real doesn't always appear.

Now you only see posts of his friends tagging him but just a common word in every post which is 'R.I.P'.