Existentialism
As we come to the final stretch of senior year, all of adulthood and life’s responsibilities have finally come to surface. Nobody said it was easy and i now know what they were talking about. Although senior year was a breeze for the most part, here comes the hard part. Life after high school has always made me anxious and now that I’m graduating in a few days I'm really starting to worry.
School has always been relatively easy to me so the thought of having to take college classes and study doesn't even phase me. But then I remember what college is and what it entails and I get anxious all over again. Recently I've been stressed out and concerned with what my exact path in life is. Much like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, i don't really …show more content…
He says the famous words, “To be or not to be. That is the question.” (3.1.63). During his soliloquy that begins with those 6 words, Hamlet questions the entire meaning of life and what his exact purpose is. Obviously Hamlet has it better off than R&G do because it's his own story that he's starring in. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have a hard time discovering their true identity and who they really are due to the fact that Stoppard took two very minor characters from Shakespeare’s text and developed them into main characters This almost makes me wonder if that's what I have to do to become successful. I’ve been living in a high school story being strictly focused on being just a minor character in other people’s life stories and I have failed to actually focus on the most important character; myself. Maybe all of this is just a part of a giant character development plan, where this existential crisis and constant anxiety helps me become who I really am supposed to be. I mean after all, Hamlet and R&G figure out their purposes in life. Hopefully my journey doesn't end in death at a young
As we come to the final stretch of senior year, all of adulthood and life’s responsibilities have finally come to surface. Nobody said it was easy and i now know what they were talking about. Although senior year was a breeze for the most part, here comes the hard part. Life after high school has always made me anxious and now that I’m graduating in a few days I'm really starting to worry.
School has always been relatively easy to me so the thought of having to take college classes and study doesn't even phase me. But then I remember what college is and what it entails and I get anxious all over again. Recently I've been stressed out and concerned with what my exact path in life is. Much like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, i don't really …show more content…
He says the famous words, “To be or not to be. That is the question.” (3.1.63). During his soliloquy that begins with those 6 words, Hamlet questions the entire meaning of life and what his exact purpose is. Obviously Hamlet has it better off than R&G do because it's his own story that he's starring in. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have a hard time discovering their true identity and who they really are due to the fact that Stoppard took two very minor characters from Shakespeare’s text and developed them into main characters This almost makes me wonder if that's what I have to do to become successful. I’ve been living in a high school story being strictly focused on being just a minor character in other people’s life stories and I have failed to actually focus on the most important character; myself. Maybe all of this is just a part of a giant character development plan, where this existential crisis and constant anxiety helps me become who I really am supposed to be. I mean after all, Hamlet and R&G figure out their purposes in life. Hopefully my journey doesn't end in death at a young