WE CANNOT know an individual’s profession by reading his face with all its wrinkles and other expressions. Doctors, engineers, big bosses of different 'prestigious' offices, hoarders of essential goods and victuals, Journalists, poets, novelists, clerks, insurance agents arc known to us when they are asked about their professions or when we see them in their respective jobs. The poets of thirties had some other-worldly ex-

pressions in their garbs, gaits and idiosyncratic behaviours which are not found to-day In any modern poet. TV and cine-actors are known only by their actions. Now the question Is, If the individuals are known only by personal contact and confessions Is it possible to think of any type-face? Is professional type-face a concoction only? Let us look into the matter.

We know that there are some agreed type-faces like loquacious Insurance, matrimonial, industrial commodity agents or advocates. The faces of professional killers are shown in movies and pictures with some special marks and

expressions In their looks and appearances. Slave-mental sycophants, taciturn and grave-looking bureaucrats. UP Chairmen, fanatic mullahs, villains, caressing mothers — all have some common natural marks expressing their Jobs, roles and professions which are assimilated by writers and dramatists as types. Even then, types are like 'Ideas' of Plato — half-truth and half-reality.

Any Individual doing a certain job for a long period may have some characteristic marks of his profession which become unique in his personality

exhibiting his difference from others. This state of affairs, though natural, bears a seed of tragedy for the Individuals concerned. These acquired, or rather, thrusted characteristics, overshadow his original character and personality — a human being in original, not a professional being only. When these artificial marks become inseparable from the individuals they cannot be shunned even after retirement. That is why a retired army or police officer is often found with a small stick In his hand as a symbol of command, even when he Is in his relaxing mood of morning walk. A businessman always

takes everything in terms of loss or gain. A teacher is often found to take others as students. This attitude Is bad and also sad. Very sad. Man has other innumerable dimensions also which are swallowed by professional behaviours.

The tragedy may come from other side also. A job-regimented mind can never have natural relations with his kith and kins. After his retirement from professional job an Individual finds himself in an environment hitherto unknown to him. Thus he becomes a victim of mal-adjustment which may

speak upon his duration of life also.

Life Is a precious gift of nature which comes only once with an unwritten condition of not to squander away in pursuit of what is artificial. So we want natural faces like those of beloved and affectionate mothers, loving brothers and sisters, innocent lovers and bosom friends.

In short, we want true and natural human beings, not ever-professlonal and artificial 'masked' men. We know that it Is not easy to find easy human beings. Because, it is not easy to be easy. So, let us practice to be easy.

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