To Love Or Not To Love
Life and Death are one; as are Love and the Sea. "Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love". -Dean Koontz Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” dilemma has gone down in history as not just Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquy, but probably the most famous soliloquy of all time. And to the credit of words, there always has been certain magic to melancholy and defiance to despair. I think I could coin this ‘proverbial continuity’. For, considering that the subject of my last blog post centered on dilemmas, it seems as though we pick up right where we left off (albeit a few steps off-track). Or do we? Yes, life is riddled with dilemmas. And so was Hamlet’s. If not his struggle between life and death, morality and sin, that provided context to the play, it was his struggle to love or not to love Ophelia. If Oblivion was all that there was at the end of ...