Thinkin' on your stomach.

Looks like this is "Change the name of your Blog" week. I'd been musing on how the title inspired by Footsbarn theatre was actually catchy..Heck, i decided to go a step further n give it a shot in the arm ala Shakespeare style...The drama's title is taken from Hamlet's famous soliloquy which i dutifully quote below:

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 heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! 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.

Before i explain the new blog title vis-a-vis this passage, it would be interesting to note what Hamlet actually meant. Shakespeare used to be nightmarish in school days, but in retrospect (and further introspect from a casual standpoint) you can't help but admire the man. Hamlet dwells on the question of his existence, thanks to his difficult times. He asks himself whether to die or to live. Living would mean taking the blow of harsh reality face-first. Death, on the other hand is compared to sleep..mere sleep..which is far more "attainable". Perhaps, Hamlet says, its possible to dream while sleeping (the analogy is continued)..but he is afraid of the dreams that could occur in death..I personally think his helplessness and indecisiveness is brought out brilliantly through these words..

The blog title deals with a parallel aspect..i construe sleeping as the the state of dormancy in "outward life"..the individual's apparent serenity as he/she presents themselves to society. However, the "inner self"/soul is far more turbulent..be it for the better or for worse..The intention in this life is to chronicle the inner-self in tandem with layman life. Perhaps i could dream my true expressions in my state of dormancy.

Cheers
arun