Who are your front row audience

The author of the poem, Life is a Theater, compares each of us to an actor performing on the stage. The audience represents the people in our lives. Those who love us have the front row seats, and those in the balcony are the ones you have to love from a distance. The author differentiates between the ones who are among the front row audience and the ones who are sitting in the balcony. We need to be careful of the people we allow to sit in the front row of our lives.

The ones who sit on the front row are important to you because you observe their response while you are performing the act. If they cheer for you, you get the encouragement to perform better. If they do not respond to your performance, it can discourage you. The ones who sit on the front row are the ones with whom you can be totally transparent; you can open your lives to them. You can talk about your weaknesses and fears to them. You can trust them with your secrets, and they do not share your secrets on Facebook.

When you share your secrets with others, you are establishing strong relationships. You are telling them that you trust them with your secrets. The more genuine your friendships are, the more transparent you will become to them. However, you must be prepared; there will be very few of them you can totally trust.