Monday, October 18, 2021

A Two-Act Play

Not the most original thought I've ever had and, I'll admit, nor the most cheering or cheerful but I woke up yesterday to the realization that for the first half of your life, people tell you what to do.

For the second, they tell you what you should have done.

It was Shakespeare's Hamlet who once offered, 

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Sounds a lot like here. -bill kenny

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