In the Era of social media everybody is trying to find their own identity. Learning more about themselves and more about other people, learning how can they make the most of their lives so that they could fit in and at the same time stand out. Social media is providing content like personality types and how can you use it to make your life easier, zodiacs, self-growth content, healthy lifestyle peeks, the ‘IT girl’, and most of all ‘how to be the main character of your own life’.
The idea of main character revolves around a person who knows her life is made for something bigger and better. Who will be provided a happening life by the universe . Who is not afraid to be herself/himself out in the open and who speaks their mind. The main character persona focuses on themselves and generally has an individualistic mindset. Being the main character simply states “Don't admire others, instead, look at your goals and take the necessary action to get to the level you want to be in.”. Being the main character in their life gives people time to focus on themselves and their needs. it helps them to learn to put themselves first.
Although being a Main character provides us with benefits like not comparing, no people pleasing, focusing on health, setting boundaries, and self-love etc, It can in many people arise the insecurity of being a side character. It makes them not accept themselves in a lesser position. Changing is good but changing is better when you change yourself out of kindness and not judgment or fury or hatred. The concept of the main character makes many people doubt their purpose and meaning. Some people while evaluating these things might make a choice to better themselves but others lose hope altogether thinking that they were born this way. When a person finds themselves in a life where he/she is born in an average household and went to school, passed with average marks, went to a university again passes, and then got an average 9-5 job living a lifestyle where he/she wakes up take the transport goes to the office, come back home, sleeps and repeat, makes it hard of them to believe a world where they actually are the main character of their life. And not finding it in them makes them restless and forces them to think that something is wrong with themselves, that they are doing something wrong. How can a person believe that they are an average human doing average work in a world where everyone is hustling and happy, where everyone is not average in their lives and doing something great . This makes our life hard to accept and slowly instead of giving a growth mindset, it leads to denial. Denial makes things worse because now even the average life seems to look worse than it was before.
After all this what is the solution to the problem? The solution to each problem lies within a person. But the core exists in ACCEPTANCE.
Being a side character or an extra to be better makes me accept my own life . EXTRA the ones who are present everywhere in the movies you watch to books you read, from Korean drama to Bollywood. the extras who are never ever given any attention. who just exists but exists fully. Being accepting that you are an extra feels so free. Extras don't have a fate, they don't live a predestined life with a happy ending or a sad drama. They are in control of their life from start to end in the world. They have their blackboard of life with chalk and duster in their hands. They live an average life and so do many of us. It's not bad or something to be defensive about . Many of us have a life of an extra, just roaming in our favorite series . And exactly when you accept that it feels liberating . Like a block of stone is removed from your shoulder. I am not telling you that all of the things you have encountered were for nothing. Neither I am saying that you don't have what it takes to be the main character, what I am telling you is why be a main character when you can be you and have the life you want in your own hands. Where you can write your destiny, where you have control, where you can do anything and no one would ever care, where you can accept yourself, where you just walk around knowing the day will completely work according to the actions you take, where you can give and take kindness everywhere you go. it feels peaceful to me, to say the least.
What I am telling you is to go on a trip you want, go talk to the boy/girl you like because the universe isn’t going to work like Korean drama where suddenly you are working in the same office together, have your pictures taken if you want but are too conscious. Do everything you can on your own because that's all you have ‘YOU’. and if there is the main character concept in reality then the universe will really be a fool not casting you for that role because you are now neither a main character nor an extra. Probably after actually taking control you don’t even care who is.