What would you do if someone told you your life has been set up?

That my wife and friends were actors? I’d feel pretty destroyed, yet slightly liberated at the same time.

I would laugh with relief and after much hilarity (because it’s been god damn awful at times) would ask…
so what now?

Murderous rampage.

‘Set up’ ??
Like how do you mean.
Sorry, I am not familar with the Truman show.

In the movie The Truman Show, a corporation adopts a baby, builds a gigantic sound stage that houses the “city” Truman lives in, and hires actors to play every single part around him, his mother, etc. Truman is never told any of this, he believes it is his real life, meanwhile the corporation makes him into a TV series and he gains worldwide fame.

SPOILER: Truman is given a fear of water to discourage him from exploring and discovering the truth, but he overcomes this in a dramatic scene where his boat (and the shadow of it) hits the edge of the world. Truman then leaves the building, and the movie ends.

I think whackyrusty has it about right. I’d feel devastated and would probably become very bitter and question everything. But in a way, I’d also feel a strange freedom to simply leave my life and start something new wherever I wanted.

I’d be extremely pissed off and start rebelling against anything in my life.

Thanks for the explanation.

I think trust would be a major issue for the rest of my life.

I’d hire a better cast of supporting players than I have now.

I would be extremely angry. EXTREMELY angry. There were things that happened early on in my life that shouldn’t happen to a dog, and to learn I’d lived through that for a put-on? Someone would pay DEARLY for what I went through.

Someone would have to pay. But, I’d have to repay them for giving me my wife.

And though she feels as if she’s in a play, she is anyway.

If someone told me that, I would think someone was either deluded or lying.

Not amused.

Laugh, because I would know they were either wrong or deluded.

I’d say, “nice job with the wife and daughter, but what the hell were you thinking with my mother?”

Our lives are set up. We can control what we believe is going on, and if we want to believe it’s all a setup, we can.

Our lives are what they are, no matter what anyone says. Our environment is the environment we deal with. A “setup” life is just as real and important as any other life. That is to say, absolutely earth-shatteringly important, and yet, worthless; both at the same time.

How about like in the movie ‘The Matrix’? Neo thought he had a real life too until Morpheus told him he was a human battery (after he rescued him of course).

If someone told me my life has been a set up, I think I would be pretty irritated and dejected for a long while until I could wrap my mind around the fact that I couldn’t do anything about it when it was happening. After finding out the truth and if there was a way to be in control of my own destiny, I would adopt that approach immediately.

Because my life never has been and never will be a set up, though, this is pretty much a moot point. My life has been what I’ve made it through my own trials, tribulations, and experiences and despite some bumps in the road now and again, it’s been a great ride so far and I expect that to continue.

find a way to break the pttern ang get control of what is right fully mine

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