WHAT IF?

What if the people we see as mentally unstable

 Are actually the stable ones?

What if the people we categorise as poor
 Are actually the richest among us?

What if the people we believe are living boring lives
 Are actually the happiest?

What if those we see as unaccomplished
 Have accomplished what truly matters?

What if everything we thought to be true
 Was nothing but a lie?

What if our moral beliefs,
 The very principles we hold so dearly,
 Are actually the opposite of what we think?

What if what we see as lemons
 Is actually lemonade?

What if the life we call fulfilling
 Is, in reality, deeply unfulfilling?

What if the way we see the world
 Is not all that there is to see?

What if our greatest achievements
 Are nothing but a waste of  time?

What if the success we desperately chase
 Is the very thing keeping us from living?

What if those we look down upon
 Are standing on heights we cannot comprehend?

What if the freedom we celebrate
 Is merely another form of captivity?

What if the knowledge we pride ourselves on
 Is the very thing keeping us ignorant?

What if the things we consider valuable
 Are the very things robbing us of what truly matters?

What if the people we call failures
 Are the ones who have truly understood life?

What if the life we are so afraid of losing
 Is one we have never truly lived?

What if everything we have been taught to pursue
 Is everything we should have learnt to let go of?

What if we are not as wise as we think,
Not as free as we believe,
Not as fulfilled as we pretend,
And not as certain as we claim?

What if reality is far beyond our perception?

What if the truth is not what we have been told,
But what we have never dared to question?

And what if,
Just what if,
 Everything we think we know
 Is merely everything we have learnt to believe?

What if?

Just… what if?