As another year ends, I thought this blog needs a recap. Writing this blog has been a roller coaster of emotions, with such a varied variety of fiction. Some people ask me what inspires these posts, where does the thought process come from. But the people close by know, I won’t be revealing that. I am too happy and content being myself, with myself.
With your permission, I take a quick look at some of the better things which were wrote on this blog some time back. Everyday until the next few days I would repost some of the earlier writings available here, along with the comments.
To me, this series is the Best of The Higher World. For you, it can be just another feeling of Deja Vu.
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Acting the Act
October 25, 2006
I was here in the evening too. The big curtains are still there, the stage hidden behind them must be waiting, for the foot taps to vibrate it, for the artistes to come and start their chores, creating magic, those moves, those thumping dialogues, that hysteric dance on trance, and for the audience to stand, to stand and to clap in unison, a few tears rolling over, some babies silent out of shock and some like me waiting to be there, there on that very stage waiting for the people to go and be the god, myself.
Shhhhhhhh….There is not much time in hand. Lights off. Oh, I ‘ll have to do it myself. Wait…K, now it seems nice. Pitch dark. The audience waiting for the curtains to open, there are butterflies flying around in my small stomach. I should not feel nervous. Open the curtains, slowly. Do it fast, the audience might lose its patience. There is noone to do that too. I ‘ ll run myself again. Here they go, moving apart, just like when a wave ends it offense on the beach, they part away, unknowingly, swift and silent. There should be a follower moving as I move to the centre of the stage, but there is noone to control it. There should be that rear panel lights when I move back in the second scene and the babies helping all the time with different colours of rainbow, which is visible only when u show your back towards the sun and see the rain. But there is noone. But I am here. I can be on the lights. Who will act then? Do we really need someone? Yes we do. Isn’t that why we started all of this? Hmm…Lets drop the idea of lights then. Yes, that can be done, anyway noone is watching.
Lets start the show. Lets start the music. It can’t be. Can we have a round of applause from the audience? This audience is absent when it is supposed to witness the greatest of actors performing in the rarest of rare performances. I’ ll clap myself to begin with. But I ‘ ll need them as I go by, for those sighs and those smiles, those laughters, those whistles, those tears, those shocks, those fears and for that final applause. So I must act as the audience first, that is most important. But isn’t that what I have been doing all my life?
Posted by Harry
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6 Responses to “Acting the Act”
1. inhas Says:
October 25, 2006 at 12:10 pm e
“Isn’t that what I have been doing all my life?”
brilliant line…
2. himschwet Says:
October 26, 2006 at 2:24 pm e
this deserves a place in the hall of fame. U cud not have said it in a better way.
3. Harry Says:
October 27, 2006 at 3:32 pm e
@inhas
Bada sa Dhanyavad, as usual..bt i seriously thinking, that is wat most of us do most of the time.
@himschwet
kahan ka hall ban raha hai us par depend karta hai 
..bt Dhanyavad anyway 
4. phoenix Says:
October 27, 2006 at 3:45 pm e
Brilliant. I love the title, I love the end and I really love the concept.
Wow!
So sorry I missed it for three days!!!
But it’s said so well that I dont know what more to say, except that sometimes I think we are the lights, camera, actor and audience all at the same time for our life and those around us…
5. Harry Says:
October 27, 2006 at 4:09 pm e
@phoenix
Der aaye durusat aaye, thank you.
Lights, camera, actor, audience all at the same time, i think we need to check each others’ definitions for these.
6. Jaspreet Says:
November 6, 2006 at 3:14 pm e
mind blowing…amazingly ended
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