Many a time you will criss-cross people who you might not have observed but who are lessons in themselves, they define a far-reaching meaning about themselves and could be mirrors to your life situations. Just the other day I met a man dressed quite ‘inappropriately’ as according to many sane individuals around him – But his job or situation demanded him to be done the character of an unorthodox looking gentleman – “The Joker” as he was quite loudly shouted at by passers by , mainly kids, who were fascinated by his colorful dress and laugh like demeanor!
His appearance attracted almost everyone – with his continues smiles and provoking gestures, he seems to amuse almost everyone. Sometimes he used to make funny grimaces at others he felt a little sad – people were getting adequate entertainment, but this juxtaposed the situation which led him to behave the way he was!Suddenly, I could relate our lives situations to what I saw and quietly observed – Here was a man who was there on the street dressed amusingly and making us all laugh through his wit but internally who on earth would have dressed like that and come to the fore of public life – making fun of himself whilst he made other people enjoy!
All I could think was about his
predicament which led him to take up this unorthodox job! Could be that he is
bound by situations of life to take this up, or may be the pressure of running
a family or the responsibilities he has to justify – though he did his job with
aplomb and devoted himself to the role he was playing. I thought “ We are also jokers
in our lives , Isnt it ?, sanely thinking, if we observe ourselves, we could
quite convincingly subject ourselves to the world and situations we live in – donning
the hat of different relationships at different times - a father, mother,
sister, brother and all sorts of roles during our lifetime – behaving the way others want us to act!
Many of us are entwined in the responsibilities of relationships which has become the part and parcel of our living. We sometimes smile to make others laugh; we act to make others comfortable. We all are jokers without our dresses who are in the comic world called “Society” which has benchmarked our roles to perform on day to day basis.
As Shakespeare once said “All the world is a stage…” so here we all are , performing in the circus of life with our ego’s, character, achievements on our sleeve but with a purpose to entertain each other on this podium.
Just like the Joker, we are also clapped on or reprimanded on our day to day performances – we are judged by people’s insane expectations as we are always expected to make the others laugh be whatever we are going though internally!
Deeply immersed in the sea of
thoughts, a sudden lough cheer broke my oblivion to realize that the ‘Act of
the Joker’ was over and it was time to shun some money for his benevolence of
making us laugh – though again this situation related to the ‘Act of life which
we are now, would end one day’ and we would be a bygone memories for near and
dear ones who themselves will done the hat of a “Joker’ to satiate the world of
its expectations…finally, the stage of life would continue…