Depiction & Deception : An Analogy.

What hurts most is that each time I'm taken to dizzying heights of joy, it is abruptly snatched from me.

It's akin to closing your eyes and making a wish before the candles are blown but a rude shock awaits you when you open them and not only is the birthday cake gone but also struck with horror to find that the entire room has been stripped bare.

You are left bewildered.

Weren't you happy mere moments ago? Why did these people turn up only to play such a cruel prank on you?

Were they hiding somewhere, perhaps intending to spring yet another surprise on you in the adjacent room?

You sweep the parameters but find nothing. With the birthday hat adorning your head, you wait and hope that they'd be back.

Erstwhile, cheers greet you in the distance. Your heart skips a beat and your pupils dilate in anticipation. You run to the door, only to realise that the party is on the other end of the neighbourhood.

You are confused and hurt.

You'd rather not have a party than to have one that was disrupted when you least expected it.

There are no answers because everyone's enjoying themselves at the other party and scarcely realises that you are conspicuously missing.

Your hapless screams pierce the air but are drowned by the crowd on the other side.

You leave bitterly, tossing the birthday hat into the gutter.

You were no birthday princess. You were the court jester all along.