The President and The Performer

I have always considered the difference between the president and the performer. Both stand to please the crowd; a suited player, who speaks the wisdom of nonsense calling for peace while setting worlds bizarrely on a Shakesperean drama tragedy, and the other; a joker setting the cards of play into clownery of action thinking that the sky will fall when the applause stops.

Both are, by far, thinking that the crown is validated for them. The only difference is that one of them is hiding the happiness that comes after fooling and the other is fooling to make who is watching happy even when hiding their broken soul is not a choice.

Ever thought of standing in the spotlight? What costume do you wear? What role do you play? Sometimes, it is not even a choice of cards. It is the only left card and it is that you play to the faith or just accept an early loss. But when the spotlight hits, this is exactly when we fix our makeup, draw the smile, show the raised heads, look left and right for traffic, and put on the finest of either suits; the president’s suit or the performer’s suit.