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Pretending
How good are we at it?
How often do you pretend? Or do you no longer do that now that you’re grown up? Is pretending just for kids?
Pretending seems to come natural to children. They all seem to do it. And they don’t need to be taught how to do it. They are experts from birth.
But as we grow up we are told to stop pretending; to be real (whatever that means). We’re told to get serious about life. Instead of pretending we should be working. That’s what being an adult is all about.
Of course there are some adults who make a lot of money pretending. They’re called actors. But if you’re not an actor and you pretend you are called fake, delusional, mentally challenged, and worse.
I knew a very talented actress once who got the lead role in a play about a woman who dies of cancer. She really got into the part, in fact she even shaved her head for the role. The play ran for four weeks and by the second week she actually started getting very sick. She continued acting but the line between pretending and reality blurred. She pretended to be sick so well and so hard that she actually got sick. A week after the play closed she was perfectly healthy again.
Can pretending be an effective manifestation tool? Is that why we’re told to stop pretending?
