Brave New World

You never know what your missing until you loose it and you never never know what your missing out on until you are told.

Let me introduce Arthur to you, Arthur is one of my good friends, we live in the same ward and he and his family are from Japan. We spent an hour or so last night talking about my ENG232 project.  As we talked about Much Ado and reporting, The Tempest and much more, i shared my blog with him.  Hence, Arthur's Comments "To Cherish" have really got me thinking.


Miranda is a truly innocent girl she has grown up on the island and known nothing more.  Her father tells her so, [thou] Art ignorant of what thou art: naught knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better Than Prosper, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father.  For example when she sees the prince of Naples for the first time, her first man save her father ever seen, she states, What is't? A spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form.  But 'tis a spirit. I might call him A thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.


She is captivated by this new world, a world she knew nothing of, it nether haunted her nor did she dream of it.  But now she is captivated by it and can't live with out it.  I'll be his surety.  My affections Are then most humble: I have no ambition To see a goodlier man. 

Now that a map has been seen and there is a unexplored world to be had her island will not do any longer.
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!  How beauteous mankind is!  O brave new world, That has such people in't.  


This is why there must be opposition in all things.  If not so, happiness nor righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.  She lived on an island with little knowing no man nor relation save her father and a monster.  She knew no good nor evil, no world other than her own.  Now see the world it truth, it's grand measure, she will be happy on the island no long.

Like wise our world changes as we gain light and knowledge.  We either realize a better way one that will allow us to increase in happiness or that we are right were we belong and we receive justification for our previous actions.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on: and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
In as much as we fail to comprehend it all we are asleep not knowing the beginning from the end and therefore failing to understand our actions and world in which we live.

Lose all to keep our oaths!

Love's Labor's Lost

Berowne:
Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law,
And who can sever love from charity?

King:
Saint Cupid, then, and, soldiers, to the field!

Longaville:
Now to plain delaing. Lay these glozes by.
Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?

King:
And win them, too...

Here we are again burning the town with fire!  At what price do we keep our goal and our dreams?


The Tempest

Prospero lost in is study:
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind
With that which, but by being so retired,
O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,
Like a good parent, did beget of him
A falsehood in its contrary as great
As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
A confidence sans bound.

Lost in study Prospero lost his kingdom power and all, his library was dukedom large enough.

Why are things so Hard?

Well this is the first time i have caught a glimpse of tying my major into Shakespeare.  Ok, probably not but it's the first time these ancient words have come to life and bit me with this regard.

As the age old wizards daughter falls in love with the recently stranded prince Ferdinand, things move too quickly for the wizard.  She has never seen a man, a man so handsome, she has never seen such a god, (ps: why can't i be a god and receive such praise, anyway...), and she has fallen for him(DUAH!), literally she's just been launched over a 1000 foot cliff as is free falling, she's committed.  He on the other hand learns she is a virgin and tells her: O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you The Queen of Naples. Yep those are the first words out of his mouth; He's hooked too! Picture a fish with a hook, mortally desined never to free it's victim, piercing the fish's side as it struggles vainly for be free.  He's hooked! His will is bound, he loves her, he no longer takes commands from himself, Cupid is now his master, his king.

So what dose the wizard do about this netted couple, he breaks them up!--ok only for a time, BUT WHY?!

...but this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light.

Now i've been too light in tone, let me change...

The things in life that are worth fighting for come at a very high price.  This is a transcendent truth, universally applicable!  Regardless of time, space, or purpose if it is worth something there's a price to be paid.  Freedom, education, love, friends, peace, joy, life, it all comes with a price.  When one wants to become something great many wants, desires, passions are sacrificed to the end.  I think of this beautiful country in which I live, the freedoms i have, to dream, the possibly to become anything i want, there is literary no law, no force that bans me from reaching any dream, save my own choices.  I have the freedom to worship God, to go and come as i please, and speak freely with my own voice.  This great freedom was purchased long ago from those who wanted to rule and persecute, it was purchased with many lives and much time.  Today there is still a price that is required.  How true it is, because such a price was paid for freedom, I cherish it.  O, I cherish it! I have family that has fought for this end, a brother that went to war, a brother that continues to serve to keep the peace here at home as well.  He puts his life in harms way so that my life doesn't have to be.  The strongest among us don't wear crowns.  To loose him would be unthinkable--the winning is heavy therefore i will forever hold the prize great.  The winning heavy made the prize great.  

As i look at future opportunities for employment and my career, still apart of this freedom, the same principle is true.  To enter these companies that interest me there is a great price to be paid.  Each company requires a grueling interview process.  To give one a taste, if you had to take a final exam before one could graduate from college, an exam that covered every year one spent there and then one had to prove it, perform one's work in front of a board scrutinizing one's every move, this is the interviews that i speak of.  Then this thought came to my mind....lest too light winning Make the prize light.  That which I work for I appreshiate.  Work hard!  "What wilt thou have pay the price and take it!"  As i have paid the price, the dream becomes more and more cherished--granted the price has yet to be paid in full!!  

I hope one day someone will see in me something great, i hope one day someone will see the potential that i feel in myself, that i will get a chance to fill great shoe at someones feet.  I hope and pray i will get a chance to shine, to make the world a better place--in that sense to put my name in history.  ...for all this the burden great and hence so to must be the prize...