And I can't stop myself from quoting Hamlet!

I read Hamlet in my 12th class (during board exams haha), and it still remains one of my favorites.

I often quote hamlet, even though I forgot many of its famous quotes, but there's one quote that still lingers, that one quote which became so close to me that I will never forget it.

I've shared it in some of my blogs previously, and still, I keep on sharing it because I believe that this one quote has such an important message which we need to keep reminding ourselves.

Here it goes -

"I do believe you think what now you speak,

But what we do determine oft we break.

Purpose is but the slave to memory,

Of violent birth, but poor validity,

Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,

But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.

Most necessary ’tis that we forget

To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.

What to ourselves in passion we propose,

The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

The violence of either grief or joy

Their own enactures with themselves destroy.

Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.

Grief joys, joy grieves on slender accident.

This world is not for aye, nor ’tis not strange"

Meaning?

I know that’s what you think now, but people change their minds. Often our intentions are strong at first, but as time goes on they weaken, just like an apple sticks to the tree when it is unripe but falls to the ground once it ripens. The promises we make to ourselves in emotional moments lose their power once the emotion passes. Great grief and joy may rouse us to action, but when the grief or joy has passed, we’re no longer motivated to act. Joy turns to grief in the blink of an eye, and grief becomes joy just as quickly. This world is not made for either one to last long in.

Never take decisions to calm your mind,

Always take decisions from a calm mind!

Decisions and Emotions?

Most of our decisions, actions, and speech are based on our emotions. We reflect through our actions, our state of mind. We take bold decisions according to emotions, we are highly motivated to act, but as that wave of emotion passes by, we are no longer motivated to act.

If you really want success, you better start thinking from your brain. It will help you stay consistent. If your decisions are solely based on your “emotions”, you won’t be able to stay consistent. Why? Because emotions are volatile, they lose their power after a while, and if your actions are based on your emotions, they will change!

Whatever decision you take, make sure that you’ve thought about it and it’s not just a result of emotional outbursts.

Going back to Hamlet, I really recommend that you should read it.

And why should you read Hamlet?

This video here might answer your questions (Or instead, it will leave you with more questions which will make you read Hamlet)

Leaving you with another one of amazing quotes from Hamlet...

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,

Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'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 undiscovere'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 pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action

No matter how twisted the plot is, this book remains one of my favorites, and I can't stop myself from quoting Hamlet!