Third party perspective

Why should you be, You? Why can't you be Alisha, Karan, Sanjana, Krithi, Aditya or Ajay? Putting yourself in another person's shoes isn't quite hard, or is it?

You put a lot of thought into a certain subject and a decision is made. Now, distance yourself from your emotions - Imagine that you are some on-looker watching this decision being made. Suddenly, you feel the decision is illogical. But wasn't it you who made this decision? How can your opinion change when you aren't the decision-maker. That's exactly how the society behaves. Relativity in opinion can be quite confusing. Dwelling in the third party perspective can be quite tricky. A neat line must be drawn to differentiate this. Or like the movie "Inception" states - one won't know the difference between a dream and reality.

This perspective is extremely useful in the field of performing arts. How do you portray a character without getting into the skin of it. If you are Lord Krishna, you need to exude grace, charm and a friendly personality - irrespective of how you are in real life. Krishna was social, flirty and very knowledgeable - an antisocial artist would find it hard to be Krishna, unless he forgets himself and pretends that he was always Krishna from the beginning. In extremely rare cases of matching personalities, a 'switch off' of your emotions is required - otherwise your worries would unnecessarily come into the picture. You might have problems with your girlfriend, but here you're romancing Radha and you don't quite have a choice!
Your mind is on full worrying mode - "Oh god ! Electricity bills have to be paid, the milkman will come at 5 30 in the morning ruining my sleep, the boss won't listen to any excuses about the presentation mailing ... " - The Lights go on ... and suddenly you're dancing in the garden of Brindavan, in a time zone that you aren't aware of, with gopis whose existence cannot be scientifically proven ... Wait, where did all those present time worries go? The mind has switched off.

Not being You for a while can really help in distancing yourself from your problems. But running away from them doesn't always help. Actually, being oblivious to situations can get you into even more trouble. So use it wisely!