CLOWN FROWN

Smile, it confuses people!”    -The Joker

Can you smile for me?

I know you did!

Wait, was that fake?

We’re surrounded by 7 billion other people. This world is full of wonders and one of them is your smile. But is it possible to smile every time? Every single moment?  No. We all fake smiles occasionally whether it is to save a person or a relationship or to get a salary! It’s natural human behavior. But what if you have to do the same every day or often? Can you do that? “Eccedentesiast” is the term used by grammar Nazis to explain the situation. It means ‘The one who fakes a smile or repress his/her pain by stifling a smile.’ Or you could say a person who hides his/her feelings behind a smile. Plenty of people do that every day for whatever reason. And for an example, we can say a clown, a joker, a doorkeeper or an actor. We don’t value their job much but it is worth to take an inside look at their lives.

An actor sometimes frigid while heavier heartedly stand behind the flashes of the cameras putting the so-called “Fake Smile” in the inner dimness and performs with his absolute potentials. There he becomes a complete eccedentesiast for his own sake. He performs as a clown juggling the colorful spheres surrounded by the vast majority of happy people. But to neglecting minds, he has the clouds of sorrow behind his smile. Nobody from the audience could ever feel his sorrow as he is skilled in hiding the reality. What all we see rather onscreen or live is just a mere illusion. The reality is far deviated from what we see. This is the prison where the clown can only perform but could never escape. From numerous mind-boggling thoughts and ideas, he always finds a straight route to nowhere just to act and perform for the world. Disdained from his work, yet he has to screen and portray something which is totally artificial. This game of imitation is just a mere distress to him. Wanderlust in his own fake smile, he creates a lot many beautiful novel smiles on the other’s flesh. He now no more wants to be in the world of drama, conflict or stress but just want to have some blissful times. In the wrapping up scenario, they made a monster out of him because he walked away from this world of drama. Such is the case among millions from the population of 7 billion.

Here when talking about actors being eccedentesiast, i want to highlight the scenario of lovers worldwide. From ancient time to today's so-called modern societies it is still not easy to love without suffering. From Greece to France and to ancient India and Egypt, we all have studied or at least heard about tragic love endings of Romeo and Juliet as well as Cleopatra and Mark Antony.  Surrounded by humongous crowd lovers are forced to fall apart by their families, friends and very sadly but very firmly by religion. It is true that very often with the reason of being scared lovers hide their feelings from each other or their families and in all this chaos they wear a fake icy cool smile on their faces so no one can catch them burning inside. Being obstacle by people around them, lovers frequently wear fake smiles just to not offend others. We should consider them as true eccedentesiasts because it isn't their choice to be one but they have to be one because if they won't this society might not let them or their lover live peacefully. Here it's the same when they go apart from each other not forever but occasionally, they hide their pain and let the lover go for his/her own good. Here we're not limiting the word lovers only for opposite sexes but also for every aspect and ways of love. It can be opposite genders or not but also can be parents and their kids. It is our responsibility to make this world a better place to live, love and laugh by not let anyone be an eccedentesiast. Whether you believe in all theism or atheism or entirely between them the very base of every philosophies and religion is morality, love, and peace. So, be happy, let people live their lives by their choices and do not let anyone become an eccedentesiast because this life is to bestow and receive love. 

Commencing with the beginning of the end of the article, I would say it is good to rather not give any expressions instead of a fake smile. It is usually essential to be present with a glamorous fake smile in the corporate world as well as in the personal chores but that should not be a habit for all of us. This so-called ‘routine of fake smile’ will ultimately lead us to the awakening of your inner demons and monsters just like a frustrated and aggravated clown or an actor. This is just a social stigma we all need to tackle it firmly and resolutely. Nervousness and uneasiness will be added supplement fallouts through all such social stigmas. Being an eccedentesiast can save you for a while or for that moment, but what next? 


Written by: Mahima Mehta and Devansh Mistry 


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