To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer,
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
If my life was a play and I could only deliver a single soliloquy, this would be it. So much for originality. Mind you, i love Shakespeare as much as i love strawberry-flavored milk tea, or Jar Jar Binks, Homer Simpson and TLC on cabel.
I find these words strangely comforting whenever under pressure or confronted with an insurmountable challenge (as I am now). Thought I’d share this with anyone who might be in a similar situation. You might say; what the hell is this kid thinking? Trying to be an angmoh by referencing some angmoh play written by some angmoh.
Just thought i'd share this little piece of Hamlet to you loyal '2 Guys 1 Blog-ies'. Yes, '2 Guys 1 Blog-ies', interesting name for a following (:
If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?
Let be.
