Park - the play! - my reflections
‘There is enough for everybody and more’. One of my mentors used to tell me during my early years of career. She was referring to professional insecurities. I got reminded of her statement while revisiting the play – Park. Apparently, the play is about three people communicating over three benches in a park one afternoon. Three persons and three benches; there indeed was enough for everyone in the park, if not more. However, there still was a fight, a struggle for a bench of one’s choice. The play involved tale of these choices, cost of them and nuances of who pays for them. It also involved issues of pain, priorities, and freedom to choose. It questions the pressure of societal expectations and individual struggles to meet up to these expectations. Whenever one deviates from societal norms, one is labeled as an outcast, something which is too high a price to pay for most of us. Due to this inability to pay the high price, one keeps living life of this...