fools.
April fool’s Day, it is a day full of pranks and jokes, a day of laughter and fakers, a day of misadventures and a day of misfortunes. Some people will make fun of you or shall I say, “Will FOOL” you and get fooled, but others would be keen enough to be “not fooled”.
I for that matter made an effort to prank my group mates, as I saw our clock stroked 12 AM, I immediately think of a situation where in I can make them believe that I am into. April 1, I and my 2 siblings are scheduled to renew our passport and get an NBI clearance. As the day itself implies, it was a day of misfortune and so, my younger brother and sister wasn’t able to renew their passport because they are minors and according to the authority they need to present a valid and recent passport of a guardian, here comes the highlight, my mother have the passport but it was punched already meaning it is not accepted as a recent passport because she was scheduled for renewal few days before our schedule. To cut it short, I was the only one who got the passport renewed. Anyway, going back to the invention of my little prank this April fool’s day, the scheduled renewal of passport gave me an idea to tell my group mates that I can’t enroll for my summer classes because I will be leaving for states in order for my VISA to be functional. Something like that. Dawn of the April fool’s day, I texted them that I can’t enroll but I didn’t tell them why so they’ll reply. That same morning when I woke up, they asked me why and so I answered the reason above. Some of them got sad and worried because I was the leader of the group, others didn’t react because they are suspicious that it is only a joke because it is in fact April fool’s day. Nevertheless, to weigh those who believed and not, there are more who believed. It was afternoon then that I spill it out, they said I am a traitor, that they really believed me, and that they were really carried away and that they already told it to others. Some just said, “I knew it…”.
Another prank come across my naughty mind, The start of our summer classes will be on April 3 and so since I am the leader of the group, I texted them that the start of classes was moved to April 7 and it was posted on the school bulletin board. They really believed it and they rejoiced. Some would not believe because I just spilled my previous prank and the timing isn’t right. But then again, most of them believed me. I didn’t prolonged my prank for they might tell it to others immediately and so I told them that April 7 is a holiday and the start of classes was not moved then, I greeted them, A Happy April fool’s Day.
I really had a hard laugh. I thought I wouldn’t be fooled for I was the one fooling around. One of my group mate fooled me though it was just a forwarded message, it really got me. Alternatively, she just got back at me and it made me laugh also.
After the fun, I suddenly realized how less pleasure it gave me fooling and joking around other people. It is nothing compared to the pleasure when you have made other people smile because you helped them or as little as you just greeted them. The span of happiness is shorter plus, you have the risk of damaging people’s trust at you. I realized I put their trust on me in danger. Trust is something very important in a relationship more than love, I believe. It is something to be taken care of breaking.
Joking, fooling and making fun at people enables you to play with their feelings. Though, I knew their feelings towards me going out of the country and leaving the group, I didn’t please me because I played at their feelings and it’s not good to play with other’s feelings specially if they are your friends and you don’t want also to be played at. Alternatively, you also don’t have the right to play with other’s feelings if they are not close to you or you don’t know them.
Speaking of April fool’s day, it is also a day of lying. I came across a quotation forwarded to me by a friend that made me realize all of these things that I’ve typed.
“Once you lied, there’s already a rule on the mind of the person whom you lied to, that is to – never believe how believable your words are, even if they’re not lies anymore.”
It struck my heart and made me scared for I put their trust on me at stake. I know that what I did was of plane joke and just for fun, but people might get that wrong and the other way around. People have different perceptions and so I must be cautious in doing anything involving trust.
Jokes should have limits because not all jokes are funny especially if it entails about feelings. Although jokes are sometimes, a way of letting out your secrets and deepest feelings to someone it doesn’t give you the license to put it all on joke because by the time you get serious, they’ll doubt you. Not all people can be joked onto, so we should choose who we put on joke. Be careful.
I am obviously guilty of making my feelings out of jokes, as the cliché goes, “Jokes are half meant” but not all the time. I really love jokes because it makes me laugh. I even save joke messages whether it is green or not as long as it made me laugh. I even spend a night reading jokes on the web. It makes my heart light and it is my way of giving a smile to other people. As they would describe me, I am a comedian but I don’t want to be called a clown. Take note of that.
Since I realized how jokes affect other people, I would be responsible enough to know my limits and I would just joke on things but not involving their feelings. I don’t want to hurt, I just want to make people smile.
Posted by: Dianne Peña | 04-02-2008 | 04:04 PM
Posted in: Rhapsodies
