Seeing the Truman show I realize how people can live such as we put it “normal” lives.

Truman lived his entire life

as if it were just some routine that he was required to do every day. In Truman’s life, there was no spontaneous
acts or anything that made him different from the average office man. That made me realize how that was
something I didn’t want to do as I got older. And also some lines stuck with me and made me think. The line which
impacted me most is that "we accept the reality of the world with which we are presented." That single line from
Christof made me think about societies and cultures around the world- it is very easy for us to accept the culture
we are born into or know best as the "right" way to live, but is it? Could it be possible to combine traditions and
ways of life from all cultures and societies? And Social norms and protocol determine what we say and what we
do. Greetings like “how are you” and “how was your day” are automatically said when we meet and greet people
when in reality we don’t care for an answer. When on the receiving end of such a question, we tend to
automatically answer “I’m doing well, how about you?” Even if our day has been horrible, social protocol dictates
that it is rude to burden an acquaintance with our troubles and it is polite to just tell them all is well. We smile at
strangers and say “thank you” to people automatically. Many times we do not even question the reality we’re
presented with. We do not seek to question reality because we fear to know the truth. All us people find comfort
in the routine and preset laws that govern our social interaction.

And as a Student, I believe that Truman is very much like every one of us. We all live in a world full of actors and
manipulators and at some point, we, ourselves are actors and manipulators as well. We are the Truman of our
show and a cast on another’s. Much of what we do daily is an act. We are governed daily by social etiquette and
are fed lines by our social protocol. We all have our roles to play and lines to speak, and I also want new things to
come about in my life and that's what this film has shown me. I realize that it sounds ridiculous, but just like
Truman at the end of the movie, he did what he wasn’t used to. He literally and figuratively got out of a world of
“normal” and that's what my goal in life. I want to do things that aren’t normal to me, but that is new and exciting.