Truth or Dare

Background: Sunday Morning 14th September 2014 , at 10:30 am, it's Children's day so every one is busy for the program that is going to be held after some hours. I am at grade seven and children urged to play. I gave them the permission. They started playing one of the famous games 'Truth or Dare'. I am their audience and am laughing on all their silly questions to find out their friends' truth and then their funny daring acts. After sometime I become quite nostalgic as I also used to play that game with my friends at high school. Then…

Monologue:

What if we had the option to choose between truths or dare in our life just as the Christmas game, in which the players are given the choice between answering truthfully or performing a 'dare'? Of course we would choose the one which we would feel easy. Some of us may be habituated to face the reality of life that's why we may choose the truth while some of us who love adventure in our life may choose the 'dare'. But have we ever thought of the situation where we can neither run away from the reality nor can stop exhibiting our dare? How would we deal with that? Can we smile when we are enclosed in a pool of tragedy?

We all have certain degree of warped reality. There are certain things in our life that we either don't want to face the reality or sometimes we even don't know that we are not seeing the reality. Whatever the case may be but both of them lead us to the path of denial; the denial from daring; the denial from facing the truth or reality. This eventually makes us weak emotionally as well as physically. Ultimately we have to be prone to another reality and suffer much more.

On the other hand, if we face the reality, we may no longer be the victim of life rather a volunteer.  Most changes that we want to see in our life come just simply by facing the reality. I don't agree with Shakespeare when he says "Lack of knowledge is source of happiness", as when we are away from the reality our happiness is just a fake illusion. When the illusion breaks, we again have to suffer. So, it's better if we set our mind to search the knowledge or the truth soon and then dare to face it so that we can change the context.

We run away from the truth thinking that it may perpetuate problem but the paradox is when we are able to see the truth then only we are able to search for the solutions. It's well said that life is itself a truth and dare game where truth is to keep on daring. While saying all these lines too and even finding out the reality sometimes we fail to dare for change as our truth comes so big that our courage to dare vanishes from our life. We may feel that it's easy to say but really very difficult to face the situation. But it also doesn't mean that we can't do it. There are many instances where one has faced the truth and chose dare and has ultimately succeed to bring the change that they desire for.

When saying all these things sometimes even I fail to dare when I chose to explore the truth but yes, there are some hands beside me who always encourage me to dare and face the reality. So may be everyone can find those hands if they really want to strive for the courage to face the truth. Let's be honest to ourselves and play the truth and dare game of life where the only rule would be to find out the truth and then dare to face it for the positive change.

(Bell rings)