To be or not to be-that is the question. (Hamlet-3.1.64)
How can one ever truly decide on the fate they want for their future? In this ever so puzzling world, we just always happen to face so many tragedies, which in many cases are the reasons that we label our oh so many factors that we are experiencing as the ever so dragging conflicts that are just always "trying to drag us from ever reaching our oh so many goals"...but if this world is filled of oh so many dragging conflicts, then how are we ever to truly know what path to choose? I would love to say to act on the same impulses of this tragic character called Hamlet, but let's not forget that indeed this character's plot was a tragedy, so the ending was without a doubt determined a long time ago to end in failure...well, unless you want to say your life is a tragedy, but let's not get too over dramatic. The real question is, "Who can honestly say that as an individual, he/she can make his/her own choices in life?" Can we even argue about free-will? Or come to any sort of agreement that we have any kind of power to our lives? Can we accept the matter on pre-destination? Or blame our societies on the influences they had on our path in life? Who is really one to blame for the never ending choices we will make or is there really no one to blame?
I want to agree on pre-destination, but wouldn't it be a sad thought to know that if we were fated to fail, we will do so just as Adam and Eve did, as when they ate the 'fruit'. Now, did they even have a choice or did God plan their fate? I sometimes wonder if God really does get to plan the oh so many hard decisions in our lives, as many say he does, or if he just stands and watches our doings. If God does have say into what will happen to our every lives, then why even bother reading his "manual" known as the bible, if we are to fail then why bother, right? I want to blame society, which would be easy to blame...I mean, who isn't manipulated by the ever so cultural influences implanted in our heads since child birth...but can we just counter argue that statement, by stating that we always had free will to take these in matters into consideration or not? Now, what exactly is free will and does anyone truly posses it? Can we proudly look at our life and say that in some point, we had the power to do as we pleased? Let's look at our household, school, government...where do we have free will? If we don't have free will, then can we even make a choice or is it already implanted to us by the power dominating us?
So, when we see the ever so puzzling question, "To be or not to be-that is the question." (Hamlet-3.1.64), can we even really agree that this is even a question to take to consideration? I believe it being an oxymoron since it's the same as asking, "When do we choose to act on an impulse without a body?" So, do we ever truly have a choice?
