hamlet spoketh

For the life of me i would have hated to quote a chunk of someone else's work but this earned the respect and highly relevant for my ramblings that follow. Totally.

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 heartache, 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 despis’d 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 these 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.

Though I am not exactly in a fragile position like the doomed Hamlet but I say, there are these conflicts that ought to be resolved ,paths that need to be chosen, purposes needed to be sought...would I rather seek the solace of well established Religion( teamed up with philosophy) to define the virtues or would I rather pursue the ideas equipped with logical dissection??

And more importantly would either of them bring peace to the troubled heart??? Hamlet though didn't find much peace I believe!!!

Dostoevsky ,wise man, once said "If there is no immortality, there is no virtue"*

Makes me wonder if it the absence of certainty of our actions that refrains us from committing them.May be the sense of virtue actually springs up from the rewards promised for the path one treads. Sadly when we don't see what our actions reap a logical conclusion will lead us from pursuing the obscure actions and one is persuaded to accept the path which one would have died to avoid.**
Should it be such a tortuous way that lead us to our choices??? Why no man is a island?? Thats where absolutism was ripped off! And what a logical choice we made in doing so!!!! Blessed is a ignorant man who is absolved of all the turmoils of the conscious heart, for he cannot see beyond the only path he takes.The rest of us have to bear the dread of choices, even a fleeting conscience would tantalize the soul till the choices are made.And deep inside the probing one might actually feel the conscious choice is nurtured by the sense of the end that it leads us to.Had it been uncertain one would resort to the way of life that might actually make us bear a long dreadful path,murdering our will ,burying the sense of comfort, for noman would tread the road that sheds no light on the path.No logical reasoning was what i meant.Heavens have mercy if the irrational man was trusted by such a crisis.
Well this would ensure a little predictions about the turn on events in the only world we have!!!
*Though this quotation is debated upon,I believe Dostoevsky would have agreed to it indeed.

**Ironically for Hamlet it is literally true.