Best speaker Magazine Issue 2 - December 2017 | Seite 74

VICTIMS
OF THE NIGHT
Where patience is scrutinized
“Strong people cry at
night!”
Who said that? What
does that even mean?
Does it really matter?
Let’s find out why.
P
sychologically, people tend to
worry about the image that they
have in front of the society. No
one wants it to be degraded or harmed.
Even when it happens, they hide the
pain behind fake smiles. Every day we
meet thousands of people with billions
of struggles, yet with fake smiles on their
faces, trying to hide the pain inside.
I want to suggest an important thing.
When the sun is gone and the lights are
out, it is the best time to meet yourself.
It’s only you. There is no one else
besides you and Batman, for he might be
anywhere in dark.
And then you might not be alone,
in the deepest sense of the word. You
might be recapturing the things you
did for the past seventeen years and
nine months. The feelings that collide
within your heart cells trying to find
the activation energy for some activity
or where brain cells keep bringing you
flashbacks, involuntarily, which you
might not even want to think of. Your
sleep will be uneasy and might not be
the best option to escape from your own
thoughts. Well then, your dreams too
would be tickling you for many reasons.
Suddenly all these events will take you to
your threshold of pain and you are then
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under stress, my friend. That’s a whole
new level of experiencing life which you
might have not even experienced, even
after drug overdose or extreme alcohol
consumption.
Now where should this conversation
turn next? This night we are talking
about, will be incomplete without the
feeling of romance. It would be the
sweetest crime you would ever want to
commit in your life, secretly. At a time
that everybody is in deep sleep and the
lights are no more, yet the sparks that
glow in your lover’s eyes, your lips would
desire life and the warmth of the body
that will burn your soul.
Are you a brave-heart to take the next
step, tangled in a series of doubts?
The next step is not really about
making love. It’s something beyond the
point where your feelings are eclipsed
and tested badly with another. It’s not
about exposing yourself to a stranger at
night. It’s about exposing yourself, at a
time other than night.
Exposing your dreams, your future,
your past, your belongings, your private
life or maybe your next move and
letting someone into your untold life in
the middle of the day where lights are
completely on. It’s about how strong
your emotions are to be criticized under
the lights and not to be hidden at night.
To what extent have you been a victim
of this paranormal yet wonderful life
event called night? Do you have anybody
who listens to you and values you? Can
you unleash the stress that perplexes
you at night? Can you accept the truth
of suffering without being anxious that
every human being is temporary?
Let no pain govern your future. If not,
you will be blinded by the fake lights for
life.
Gavelier DILSHAN
MADUSHANKA
Faculty of Science