LIFE is a CIRCUS

It is often believed that we live our life as per our desires. It seems as if we are steering our lives in perfect harmony or perhaps that our life is a roller coaster rides driven by an external force constantly that is invisible to us. With many steep and shallow points during the ride is what we compare to our lives. But is it so in reality?

Perhaps, but i draw my analogy of life from a circus. A place where people enjoy, oblivious to the roles they are playing themselves. They live it every day, become a source of entertainment for others every day, and give people a reason to pass critiques over your act. And once the act is laid my friend, it is irrevocable.

Allow me to show you a picture of life from the perspective I draw my analogy. Every day we wake up, for what?  You?  Me?  Our parents?

 I wake up because I have too. I am supposed to do so because I am expected to study & make my future. Not only this, but also to become a source of pride for my family. So that when the day comes I support them (which is a good thing) and hoping to earn a perfect bride. Are these the reasons why I have been getting up for past 21 years of my life? Are your stories any different?? I doubt that. Maybe the perspective differs but similar aim is somewhere lurking behind your perfect and disguised perceptions of life.

Our parents wake up every day to earn, to provide us with basic necessities of life as well as luxuries so to make easy path for us to build our future. Not only that but to take pride in telling the world our child is a highest achiever at school or is currently working for some XYZ company at this salary. They wake up every day with their aim being their children and family.  They teach us ethics and values so as to not only organize ourselves but to please others. In other words, blend in the society so we aren’t the hot topic of conversations in a gathering.

So is it right? Is the reason of you and me waking up in the morning, the reason what we are living for? Or is there something more to it? There is! There is much more to it than we comprehend and because we are so blind to see it, we are too engrossed in this chaotic world to feel that this isn’t the reason at all.

I refer our life nothing but a circus because we wake up every day suppressing our feelings and our true selves; prepare to stage ourselves for this world as they want to see it. We, humans are versatile and adaptive by nature but is it right to deceive people with smiling faces and tortured souls? Is it right to tell the world and most importantly yourself that it’s okay and everything is at peace and calm in your life when it is not? Is it okay to lie when it does not benefit anyone but us? Is it okay to be a part of these peoples life that lie to you constantly and show you what does not exist?

Life is a circus and a long one bear in mind. The performers are there to please you. They are controlled by the ring master. Every performer is a star there. Each one has its part to play, and every single performer is vital for the show to be amazing. Likewise in our lives every single soul, even the feeble of all, has its part to play. However, one has to pay his price to be entertained. We pay our prices in various shades of life. That price is usually our contentment, our sentiments, our passion, our relations and our family. These are the prices we pay without the realization what losses are we paying for the desire of being entertained. Oblivious to the fact that the smiling faces may have their portion of grieves and desires in life unsaid and unnoticed. Life isn’t fair neither it is fair. So let’s just not treat it likewise. Let us just care for once, make space for realization, understanding, and humanity, think of giving happiness and spreading it instead of buying it.

To be honest, the paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less cure.

We eat too much, work out too little, laugh just a little, get too aggressive, sleep too late, wake up too tired, read  little, laze around too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

Therefore try as I am. Don’t let people juggle your life for entertainment. Life isn’t a roller coaster ride. Life is a consequence of our decisions. I deny to accept my life as a part of a circus, as a performer, as an entertainer and as a puppet. I am not here to please other for the sake of it. I and you are in this world to serve the humanity with contentment and honesty. Stay happy and spread the happiness instead of selling it and for others to buy it.