I go again..

Mic Testing.. 1,2,3 hello !!

That did sound familiar, I hadn’t been up on the stage for over six months now; the last time I were, it was in the company of friends, people who understood me, my content and my brand of humour. It was different now, out of my comfort zone, in a different city and stranded in the midst of faces unknown, I were there to test the waters; fresh water; could be saline too, who knew?

“C for Confusion, C for Comedy and C for Coping mechanism.”;I would say.
Too many C’s; and there had to be C for Clarity, now.

The spotlight was on, one comic after another setting their premises up, dropping their content: the audience and the vibe did feel a whole lot different, the crowd cheering and jeering and heckling as if it were more than an open mic, but that’s what open mics are about: the crowd tests you; tests your patience and your improvisation skills. And, here I was, feeling the heat; within and without. I thought about the nights when I had bombed real bad, and of nights when I cracked people up; bittersweet memories flashing right infront of the mind’s eyes.

Life had given me enough content, it was time to now set the context; to unleash the joker in me: and, I did; I bombed and I got some laughter cracking too, it felt as if it were my first time again, that adrenaline and the same level of anxiety, when sweat breaks out and there’s a lump in the throat, you clear it up; hold your breath, take a pause and open your mouth to let it all out.. Done!! Gone!! I did it, the twenty second long applause testifying that I did reasonably well.

No climax here!! Neither an anticlimax.

It was a confidence booster after long, to let out and to feel light. It had been my coping mechanism, it did save me again, came to my rescue when I needed it the most, my sense of humour hadn’t deserted me; it did take some knocking though. Life does seem interesting when you start seeing it from a different lens, with the glasses of humour on; I did magnify my dull life only to find traces of hidden jests in them. Voila!! oodles of content to play with..

C for Cheers, for now !!

Ahh!! Too many C’s..