They have their exits and entrances...

After a brief sojourn, am starting again to blog my thoughts on the “unexpected” election results of India 2009.It was like, a wait and watch the parties’ post-elections, after 100 days, and, then write about the results…(honestly to admit...working time did not permit me to blog and i also started reducing my blogging time...and took the easy route of sharing news item in my blog...it was more of a convenience than a choice)

Before i start to write about the results and my own perception about each political party, was reminding myself of this beautiful poem of Shakespeare…during an online chat with one of my friend…."All the World’s a stage and all the men and women merely players....."

...All the world's a stage



All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)



for certain...they have their exits and entrances…and, they have their exits and entrances...!