Just A Play

Everything is just in a play. What we do is just a play. It influences people, impacts their mind for few moments. The next day they wake up, all impacts are lost. We try to make people aware by posters, dramas, street plays, etc. People take it as entertainment. Do we, the participants, ensure that something fruitful happened, do we ensure that somebody really changed or not? No, we just perform our duties and leave the place and so do others. We just know how to raise our voice and words. The participants need to do something that puts a deep impact on everyone’s mind and they do really change.

If one is participating in any type of play for a social cause then one needs to be perfect first or rather ‘tending towards perfectness’(as people say nobody is perfect in this world). Here, by perfect, I do not mean a perfect actor but a perfect believer of that cause. One needs to think deeply of the social cause and think about its cure. What most of the plays show is the cause. Everyone knows the cause but what the world needs is a cure, ‘a permanent cure’, to that cause.

Participants of play (here street play) do see the poor kids around them while performing. The situation is such that those poor kids who don’t even know their national anthem just enjoy the play and once when the play is about to get over, they see a good opportunity to ask for money and food from the gathered crowd. Participants of the play too see those kids asking for food. What participants seek is the opportunity to ask for a party, for performing well, from their head. The moment the head starts praising participants, they ask for a party. So here the real participants of the play shouldn’t ask for a party for spreading awareness of a social cause and if they are asking for a party then it should not be for themselves but for those poor hungry kids, then it would be so good. Even people around would be assured that the participants are not just actors but they do really feel for it.

If one participates in such plays then one must have the real feelings so people who see the participants after the play gets over do feel that they are not just actors but real believers. Then the people around would also get inspired to change. Just remember if you are doing something for a social cause just don’t ask for a return, just don’t think about profit. If you are a seeker of profit then just think that whatever you do for a social cause adds up to your karmic account.