A Serious Thought

This is but a Serious Eclectic Thought,

If the Worlds a Stage;

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” – Shakespeare

And if the World is full of actors wearing masks as personas for their person;

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face” – Franz Kafka

And yet we’re free to be the mask that we wear;

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

Or perhaps the mask is free to be us; Perhaps the masks we wear, instead, wears us. As evidenced by actors who could not step out of method acting after stepping into a role that took such a toll on their souls and beings. We simply cannot always have the strength to be or become the monsters that the masks wears.

And if we were to think the World is a Stage, a Facade, and is full of Clowny tunes.

Wouldn’t then this quote apply?

“The King is a Serious Fool. The Jester Takes Fooling Seriously”

Epilogue;

This is but a small thought I am allowing to broadcast into the world. As words mean things, the word ‘mask’ and ‘stage’ apply greatly through the illusions of reality that we endure. Allbeit the fractal God being wears many masks as if it’s a hydra of Cosmic existence and that the universe is but a Venetian Carnival.

Arguably the seriousness of geopolitics is but a charade, with strings being pulled from the shadows propping up astro turfed movements and puppeteering reactions.

Perhaps we should take things lightly and not so seriously. Perhaps we should do things seriously without feeling serious about it. The sort of non-attachment Zen that Buddhist monks have, the sort of enlightened Nirvana in which we continue to chop wood and carry water.

As G.K. Chesterton Puts it “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly”

And all the above are merely words weaved into a suggestive point, a narrative story of looseness with a message that few will find for themselves. Perhaps few will have to make up what the ‘point’ or ‘meaning’ of these words are.

Words Mean Things