April Fool’s Day
an ordinary day with extraordinary overtures
Are we all fools? And what about April Fools?
The first of April is known as fool’s day! Not like a celebration of being foolish, but a celebration of the fool, someone, who can be and is befooled! And this particular day, it is ok to make a fool of someone, without offending them
To make a fool of our own selves is our prerogative, and we do that quite well too and can do that any day, there is nothing special about it, but yes, making a fool of another person, that’s a thing.
Though, if they are more clever than you, you are done!
You also risk your safety, if the person is foul-tempered, or bulkier than you.
But when you do it on this particular day of the year, the first of April, the person is not supposed to get annoyed at you.
Even if you put ink in the water, they were going to wash their face with, or in my case, they actually did wash their face and walked around with ink on their face the whole morning wearing it like a sign, ‘I’m a fool’, all over the university campus, they are not supposed to be angry.
That particular day, when it actually did happen to me, I hadn’t realised it was the 1st of April, though I did know the history of the importance of…
