
We present this joker-like persona before relatives, family, bosses, colleagues (to maintain a lively mood), wife, and children; we become it, sometimes acting as a good joker and sometimes behaving poorly toward those who depend on us.
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We present this joker-like persona before relatives, family, bosses, colleagues (to maintain a lively mood), wife, and children; we become it, sometimes acting as a good joker and sometimes behaving poorly toward those who depend on us.

Mahendra ji, notice the shift in your own sentence, you moved from wearing the joker persona to protect the mood around others, to using it as the reason for behaving poorly with the very people depending on you. One is a mask put on for someone else's comfort. The other is a mask used as cover for your own conduct. Calling both by the same name quietly lets the second one off the hook. Which one is actually happening when you're short with your wife or child, the performance, or the excuse.