A Big round of applause for...Applause

                Now this might really be a strange topic to talk about but have you ever wondered how contagious clapping, applause, big hand is?

                No matter how exciting, entertaining, yawing, boring, torturing the setting is, it only takes one to start a movement…the crusade to applause!! It not only makes the excited ones to join the crusade but even the ones who are ‘on the border’-the ones who are still deciding if it is worth spending the energy to move their arms. They join in the band wagon rather reluctantly, but that doesn’t matter because just as when people become public, the claps become applause!!

                Becoming the part of the applause movement, is the classic example of herd mentality. But whatever case it may be, as humans we have learned to convey our heartfelt (well, most of the times) appreciation in form of claps. So what is the history of applause? (Relax, I know I have a little too much time on hand, so no need to smile, grin or smirk :) ). The story goes something like this…during the declining period of Roman Empire, the Roman emperor made plans to meet with the Barbarian king. To intimidate the king, the emperor couldn’t lean on the thin Roman army, so he turned to a group of non-army men. They were ordered to make noise by clapping of hands. Well, the clapping exercise didn’t bring any relief to the wounds of a bleeding empire but it gave the human society the gift of ‘applause’.

                Human beings have come a long way from thunderous clapping for acclamation to tweeting & likeing for commendation. But even in the current environment of f-friends and e-groups where tags and share has become the way of life, nothing comes close to the Big round of applause. The magic of obedient, polite, enthusiastic, tepid, thunderous, sympathetic and sometimes ironic applause is simply amazing.

                So guys lesson of the day, join the campaign of applause whenever and wherever possible and once in a while try to start the crusade, I am sure the fellow clappers will join. For nothing binds us human more than the Big round of Applause.

They story of Applause was adopted from  http://www.theatlantic.com