What's real?

Akila has been thinking for a while about this issue: reality. What is it? How is it important to him?
Mental alienation or insanity aren't just when someone has lost the sense of reality?
But aren't we all somewhat alienated since we don't see the same reality?
Akila has had a funny time some days ago with a friend of his, who works in a bank.
This fellow, whom we'll name Y., had been in the same college as Akila, so they spent a nice time reminiscing about the past and nice moments: this old professor that wanted to burn his floppy disks fearing that some evil "virus" might survive formatting, that student that once pretended fainting so that his wanna-be girlfriend would come and cradle him, that other programming professor that just couldn't spell an english word correctly...Those were innocent and great times!
But now Y. has been married for 2 years so far and seems to have some troubles.
Y. would like things to be like in the good old times where he could keep it innocent and do whatever he wanted, without it been overemphasized by some controlling wife. At college, he could sleep late, watching along with next door neighbours, the latest blockbuster which he downloaded the night before from some underground website, or listening to several gigabytes of danceful MP3s and all that not matter the class he was having in few hours. That was freedom!
Now two things take him to bed even from 9PM: his wife and his job!
His old dad was telling him the day following his wedding ceremony: "My dear boy, let me reveal something to you: your wife will one day become your mama, just as your mom is to me now!"
Y. tried to laugh it off but his dad held on: "She's going to become your mama!, I know what I am talking about"
Now Y. can trust his dad, it has come true! Everyday with his wife is like "Go to bed honey, you must wake up early for work tomorrow! " or "Where are you going out again for, honey?" or "I don't like your friend X, he's too ..." and all he can answer is "Yes, honey!" "Ok honey", "Nothing honey" ...
Of course he loves his wife, he wouldn't live without her. But there are just some things he needs to adjust himself with. He has never imagined his marital life to be like that. Not that it's a bad life, it's just different from what he expected. The other problem is, he thought he could say anything to his wife, talk to her about all kinds of subjects...It happens to be quite dangerous to go that way. Like what he was telling Akila, he could never have this kind of discussion with his tender love without her making it a bigger issue than it really is. While he just wants to talk, his wife would compute in her mind and find out that he is not happy with : her, the house, their way of living etc. And she just can't agree with the fact that he's not content with all that he has!
They don't have the same view on the reality of daily life. Many things aren't just what they seem to be to each of them.

His other problem is a bit related to the above, he has no one to talk to. The daily routine has had him dancing on the same tune: work, home, week-end at mama's house (either mama) ...
At work, no time to chat with colleague, no break for a joke, everyone is uptight and only does his job, expecting to grab the attention of some director and receive a promotion in order to leave this small bank agency and move to the headquarters.
Everyone is oh too ambitious to engage in a relationship where they would not reap direct profit.
So it's not the proper time or place to make good friends. No one is real, everyone is playing a game. And not matter how long it lasts, the game will last until there's no more people to play.

There was many other topics in this conversation Akila had with Y. Basically, Y. was very happy to talk again to someone he can be open with. They updated their phone numbers directories and left.

This leaves Akila with a lot to think about about his own life and the things he goes through in his own relatives. Both near and far relatives. A whole lot to think about.