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...
