GOOD ACTORS ALONE SURVIVE

Once a friend asked “How can we assess one’s maturity, I mean mental maturity?”

What he meant was the overt evidence on maturity.

 “It can either be his approach, behaviour or his dressing.” My version was so.

“Exactly right.” He exclaimed.

 It is solely ones dressing proves his mental maturity. At an age of immaturity one wears dresses in a changing style. He combs the hairstyle depending upon the trend of the day. After some years, he feels a particular style of dressing and hairstyle suited to him, on which he would stick on through out the lifetime.

 Agreed? Then, tell me frankly, Are you matured?

In my assessment, maturity also rests with our ability to act in the real life. In the office I am a good actor. So others branded me as a model officer. I have to respect my superiors to get their favours. Yes I am an actor before them with high degree of reverence at least in acting. In their absence I have no timidity to humiliate their personality! To my subordinates my face and acts are entirely different, like the other side of the coin. I am strict to some staff, propitiating and patting some others and ignoring yet others. In the name of ‘effective’ man management, I have to play well to placate the game. I even pretend to threat them with a tone of an autocrat. In the home, how is me with my parents, my wife and child?  I am entirely different personality in the society. On seeing my old teacher at an arms length, I used to down my folded dhoti to appease him, apparently an act of respect. I would even fold the dhoti at a distant sight of the teacher, obviously to unfold  at his direct sight, right? In the company with my friends, I become another one; I can use any terms to pronounce them. Even I can be a bit sub standard at times of company with my bosom friends. If I think all these acts as exhibitionism and eschew from the thespian life, what would be the remarks of the public on me. Behaving to the subordinates and higher ups in the same sequence and wave length, speaking to the parents and friends in the same tone…what an awkward situation. So it is my advice to the new generation to be good actors in life. Hypocrisy is often criticized, but all of us practice and promote that with great enthusiasm and reverence. It has its own relevance in civilized society.

A GOOD ACTOR IS A GOOD SON TO THE PARENTS.                  

A GOOD THESPEAN IS A GOOD CITIZEN IN THE SOCIETY.

A GOOD HYPOCRIT IS AN ACCEPTED SALES MAN IN THE MARKET.