B-Day
Today is Shakespeare’s birthday! Apparently, Twitter users were asked to include their favorite line from one of the bard’s works to celebrate. Scott’s can be seen @sdrosenb on Twitter.
For those of you who don’t have a Twitter account, like myself, I thought I’d start the ball rolling here and encourage readers to join in. My favorite lines are from Julius Caesar. Cassius says it to Brutus in Act I, Scene 2:
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves,that we are underlings.
And though Cassius’ plot, to kill Caesar, is a sinister one… it’s still an amazing quote, especially considering that Romans were so convinced astrology had so much to do with their fates… This quote still resonates today because even in our modern society, we still put so much stock in so many other things outside of ourselves.
I do believe there is a greater force in the universe, and I’ve benefited many times — feeling that someone or something was watching over me, but I also feel that we are here RIGHT NOW for a purpose, for a reason, and it is our duty to fulfill that purpose as best we can. No one can fulfill his or her own destiny without working for it… Luck can put you in the right place at the right time, but you’ve gotta work to stay there.
Bottom line: We get as far as we get by our own hands… at the end of the day, the praise or the blame lies at our own feet.
And that’s why, hundreds of years later, we’re still celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday and his works… He showed us who we are, and continues to do so.
–Sue
1 comment April 23rd, 2010
