"World is nothing but a stage"

"World is nothing but a stage" Shakespeare had said. I once danced on that stage with a free spirit in front of a large audience. And like every person who is in love with their work, I refused to give the idolatry performances that people have gotten used to. Nevertheless, people saw the brilliance of my true work, stood, smiled and said, "Wow! Maybe we should do it too."

But then, when the show was over, and they returned to their homes, they forgot about the show and were worried that their bread isn't soft enough. It's not that they didn't care. they did. But, the fact is that bread is all that those people could care about.

Then, one day, a performer came, and had the guts to show them that breads don't matter, liquor don't matter, children don't matter, families don't matter, and, then (as an overture, he said) God doesn't matter. What matters is integrity, love, respect, work, and honesty- irrespective of who you are and where you come from. And the same audience that had greeted my work screamed, shouted and pelted stones in anger at him. They not only blamed the man for being blasphemous, but they also considered his ideas abstract and idealistic foolishness. But the performer stood calm and took all the anger with the silence of an executioner, because in front of his courage, the stones did not exist, the slander felt hollow and the anger, superficial. I was there when it happened and couldn't help but be mesmerized by his courage.

Then the circus owner turned toward the performer and asked him to change his act. The performer cringed and said,"Don't ask me to do that. I can't work without pronouncing the truth."
Anyways, the owner was a good businessman, and he did not want to lose a great performer, so he did the best that he could- he changed the performer's role into that of a clown.

"There. Now you can say whatever you want. Nobody would throw stones at you," the owner said. The performer agreed to be the clown and continued his act. Everyday, when his role came, he'd speak the truth in the best possible way, and people... people would laugh at him, thinking that it's all a joke.

To most people honesty is a joke. Not because they think that it's impractical but because they don't have the courage or the spirit to be honest. They'd love someone who'd lie and cheat because they can relate to that. What most people don't understand is that honesty isn't a practiced or a doctored quality. It is something that some people are born with. It's their muse and it's what brings the best out of them.