“The show must go on” is a phrase, which was used to convey the idea, that an event or activity must continue even if there are problems or difficulties.
Our life is the greatest show on earth which we put up till we slip away into eternity. Some shows are recorded by historians while others linger in the memory of people with whom we mingle with. If we were to go back in a time machine we can see some shows of the past. Here are some of them.
In a train journey M.K.Gandhi took his seat in a first-class compartment. The railway officials pushed him out since non-Whites were not permitted in first-class compartments. This show did not end here. He returned to India from Africa and started the show of freedom and became the greatest leader of the freedom movement.
Everyone, of us have certain values — certain conclusions — that direct our life and goal. Adolph Hitler valued the superiority of the German race and sought power above everything else, and that value created negative thoughts in him. He rose to the position of chancellor of Germany. He decided to rule the whole of Europe, for which he initiated a war and this show escalated into World War II.
The show of Helen Keller in spite of the damage of her basic senses, she did not stop her desire to read and write. She learned through the ‘Braille system and empower others with the same limitation because she believes that disability is not God’s mistake but ignorant man’s belief. She rightly says, “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
The greatest show of our grandparents, on this earthly stage which linger in the memory of many people is that of fire-torches and ponnttis, bullock carts and vhoddims, which they continued till they flew far away to the land of Eternal Bliss.
“The Show Must Go On” is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by guitarist Brian May and sung by Freddie Mercury, who was very optimistic, even when he found out that he was incurably sick. He continued to make music despite his illness until the very end. It was his way to tell the world that life is a battle and the show must go on whatever comes our way.
We in Golden Goa have loads of such shows, filled with actions and suspense, like for example: The yearly Carnival show to attract tourists which is filled with street ‘tamasha’ drawing villagers on the streets of towns, creating unprecedented traffic problems and crowd management; ‘showy people’, who put on their meddling attitude at happy happenings or at sad sympathies; show of exciting definition of coconut trees as grasses to make it easy for builders to cut them without any forest departmental hurdles; and presently, the master stroke of PM of demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes was a show of standing under scorching sun in serpentine queues in front of banks. It was a show of ‘little pain for a greater gain’ to our national economy in the near future.
In a couple of months the greatest show called “the dance of democracy” will start where the wise Indian voters will punish the corrupt and this show will go on after every five years to prevent corruption both in public and private sectors.
