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Thursday 23 May 2024

Theatrics and Truth: A Perfect Balance

 
Written by Mathew Naismith


The world is my stage, as I state it, William Shakespeare's states it as, "All the world's a stage".

Theatrical: Suited to or characteristic of the stage or theatre. Having qualities suggestive of a stage play or of an actor's performance : deliberately or exaggeratedly dramatic or emotional.

Never looked at it like this before, but my life is of comical theatrics. If I am not of being openly honest with the truth, I am being comically theatrical, both traits today seem to be socially and politically unacceptable.

"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man.

Through these seven ages, Shakespeare captures the full range of the human experience, from the innocence and vulnerability of childhood to the wisdom and decline of old age. The speech serves as a reminder of the fleeting nature of life and the importance of making the most of each stage.

So how do people like me face the truth repeatedly face on while avoiding dramatising the dramatics even more so, in the process becoming overwhelmed? You make the best of each and every stage of life, not the worse, or at least attempt to do so.

I am a believer in reincarnation, which is very different to a resurrection, however I don't go with each life is separate to the other, it is simply one life lived through different stages of life lived. Each reincarnation is a birth of a new experience, a different stage of life experienced from previously experienced. The human self mostly only experiences each life lived, the spiritual self experiences it as one life lived. Shakespeare speaks of a human life lived through 7 different stages, I am speaking of many stages of life lived or experienced.

In a reality based primarily on a multi-billion dollar war industry as well as a multi-billion dollar bad health industry, the comical theatrical industry and the truth being spoken openly and honesty is being heavily censored, which is quite understandable considering what the present reality is based on. It is really weird to someone like me that comical theatrics and the truth being spoken openly and honesty is shown so much disdain in today's society. These balancing traits are seemingly becoming a rarity, extinct, drummed out of today's society.

It is funny how my everyday comical theatrics irk so many people today, add also being open and honest with the truth, people like me, in a reality based on multi-billion dollar abuse industries, are expectantly going to be socially unacceptable. If you are aware that you will be socially unacceptable, being socially unacceptable within such an abusive reality is no big deal, in actuality we should embrace being socially unacceptable within such an abusive reality. To be socially acceptable one would have to be of this abusive reality, in fact it is a good sign that people like me are not socially acceptable.

So in an over dramatised dramatic abusive society, balancing out these highly abusive over dramatics with comical theatrics while being open and honest with the truth is for me a perfect balance of energies.

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