To Live or Die

It is easy for people to say they enjoy life, but do they really enjoy it?

Hamlet during the first scene of act three starts questioning what life is really about. In my personal opinion he is right, not only because during your whole life you encounter a so called "rub" (Hamlet, act 3 scene 3, line 73), but also because you are always waiting to go to sleep and encounter that place where your wildest dreams may come true and where problems seem distant and unseen.

Why do we like to sleep? It may be because of how fast the human body get tired, but also because while you sleep you encounter a whole new world full of the things you want the most. A kid would love a world made out of candy instead of the cabbage he had during dinner. Humans want sleep because it is when the mind and that person show the real desires, hopes and goals they want to achieve, dreams are the closest thing people have to knowing how the human mind works. Hamlet gave a new turn to human mind, Why live, instead of sleeping and being in that place that gives you all the things you desire?

Another matter, is how Hamlet talks about dead, yes while you sleep you go to wonderful places, but when you wake up they are gone and your simple life comes back. Isn't it better to die? just forget about everything and be dead instead of suffering everyday for not having the things you desire the most. Maybe this is an extreme but he is right.

Would you prefer living or dying?

Gabriela