To Be or Not to Be.........

When I first read and understood it, I loved it. This soliloquy of Hamlet, truly explores the depths of human feelings. Yet, after the idea of leaving a well settled job and getting into my own venture entered my mind, these lines make special meaning to me. Not that I am in any doubt that I want most definitely to do it, yet, the self doubts do crop up at times.

To be, or not to be (from Hamlet) – Shakespeare

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,

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

The pangs of despised 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 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. - Soft you now!

The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons

Be all my sins remember'd.

Wonderful when in self doubt. Is it not much easier to have a settled career, not to risk losing anything because all the risk is of the owner and one can always get the next job. You can always follow instructions and get support and directions and do not need to stress yourself out with sleepless nights (okay, I know its not exactly so good and I have experience of that myself, but it is definitely much less in degree than that of an entrepreneur). Yet, you are dissatisfied and frustrated and want to be your own boss, even though there is so much of uncertainty and you do not know what is going to happen. Shakespeare was a sweetheart, a man for all occasions.