Welcome to the Truman Show
Everything happened the way that it was supposed to, everything was going according to the plan. Truman would wake up and do his normal routine and everyone else would go right along with it. The bus would be where it was supposed to be, the same people passed by on the streets and the job was always the same old job. Everything was pretty safe in Truman’s world, in a world of perfection there wasn’t much room for risk in Truman’s life. But it never killed the curiosity inside of Truman — he wondered about if life was different. He wondered about other places, he wondered about other feelings and he wondered what if things didn’t go how they were supposed to? He may not know the answer to that, but the rest of the world knew, as they were the ones watching this perfectly created life on their TVs. Truman’s life was a constructed piece of art and he didn’t even know it. His life had been made into a TV show that was organized to the tee for the world’s entertainment.
Truman Show or Our Show?
Our lives aren’t very far from Truman as we have our lives on display through Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. We have created our own Truman shows out of our lives, unlike Truman we have done this willingly. The world is watching our lives and we have made sure that they are going as they are supposed to. That’s why we post the best pictures that we can with the dopest filters on it that make the picture something reality couldn’t even make for us so we enhance it. The world stands back and watches our lives placing whatever judgments or thoughts they have on it. They surround the TV like Truman’s fans as they wait to see your reaction or your latest stupid post. We stand in front of the camera debating what we want to show to the world.
Too Many Questions
What if it didn’t matter what kind of life others wanted us to live? What if it didn’t matter if we lived up to the expectations of the world? What if we didn’t live exactly how our parents imagined that we would? What if we could live free of judgment from others and ourselves? This is the world that is awaiting Truman on the other side of the studio wall that holds him in. A place where life isn’t lived perfectly to the tee, a life that isn’t lived with exactly every step going how it is supposed to. A place where you aren’t defined by the things you do or don’t do, where you are free to live without fear. Free to live without judgment.
Hitting the Wall
Truman had enough — he knew something was up with this world and he just had to leave. Battling his greatest fear of an unknown and unplanned life personified through a fear of the ocean, he launched a boat out into the water to go down the path of the unknown. Pushing through the storm and the waves of disapproval, he finally had made it. Running into the wall of the studio that he had been filmed in for all his life he finally realized that there was more to life than what he had just been seeing. There was a possibility of a world that was free from judgment, that was free from the worry of what people would think, free from an audience, free from the fear of others and free from the anxiety that comes when things don’t go right. Breaching this wall, Truman looks back and welcomes us into this new world of grace where things don’t always go as planned, and that’s okay. Truman leaves us with his final words, “in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night!”
