TO ACT OR NOT TO ACT

Steve Job's speech is commemorating the idea that one must simply not give up, give in, or give out to anything and anyone. That one must endure the savageries of life without any hesitation of looking back, but looking straight ahead to a bright future ahead. Steve is pretty much on the positive side of life! Hamlet on the other hand is reflecting upon the peace that is provided when one wishes to be dead. Being dead, although being peaceful, is not the path to choose from because being alive and enduring the many "heartaches" and "natural shocks" is the beauty of life. It is the quintessence of life itself to completely know that even though life has its extreme faults, it is the faults that makes us human and unique.