The Illusion by Nandini at Inkitt

Summary

Here’s a clear, simple summary: The passage describes a person who feels they’ve spent much of their life living in an “illusion,” using imagination to cope with emotions like anger. At first, imagining happy things helped them feel better, but over time their imagination has started creating disturbing and negative scenarios. Recently, they noticed they no longer feel shocked or upset by these thoughts—in fact, they feel emotionally numb and even somewhat drawn to them. Where they once shared feelings with others and found comfort, now they feel disconnected and affected by these darker inner experiences.

Genre: Young Adult

Author: Nandini

Status: Complete

Chapters: 1

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 16+

Chapter 1

The illusion of something begins when it doesn't exist in our lives, and I have always lived in an illusion, so much so that 20 years of my life have passed in understanding it, and now it's starting to feel like a story. Whenever I was angry, I would imagine things that brought me joy, and that, even if temporarily, made me happy. Perhaps I got so used to this that now my imagination is also creating bad situations. Recently, I experienced an incident in my mind where a person's body is being cut by a furniture cutting machine, and it's happening right before my eyes, and I don't feel anything about it. I don't think about it, I don't get stressed, I'm not surprised – nothing. It doesn't bother me that something bad is happening. And somewhere, these things that happen in front of my eyes, in my imagination, have started to give me pleasure. Where before I would talk to someone, share my sorrows, express my anger, and find happiness in that, now it's like if bad things are happening.