shakespeare has surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly?) been on my mind today. i generally outwardly pretend to not dig him so much, but secretly, i actually really enjoy his stuff. not in a i-have-read-and-seen-every-freakin'-play-he's-written-and-memorized-every-sonnet kind of way, but i like him. especially when i can experience his material in the shakespeare tavern in downtown atlanta. but i diverge.
you have to give the guy props. the guy had wit. much of which goes over our heads. and while we have made some of his one-liners a bit cliched, there is truth to them nonetheless. it is his two most famous quotes that popped into my head today. one with literally no brain activity connected to it, and the other hitting home in such a real way.
[insert rose quote here]
i work at a greenhouse. i stopped to smell a couple of roses today. insert rose quote into brain. marveled at the smell, ......and moved on.
[insert parting quote here]
i helped to coach my old high school's track team this spring. and wouldn't you know it, those little stinkers snuck into my heart without me even knowing it. we had our end of the year track banquet tonight. it was so good to see those kids again, even though i didn't get the chance to talk to many of them. but my heart hurts a bit. i probably won't see any of these kids again. i won't get to see them mature out of their punk high school attitudes. i won't get to see them excel at whatever they choose to do. i'm going to miss out on these people that i invested time into.
i hate goodbyes. it really is sweet sorrow because you can love someone, so dearly without even realizing it and then they are plucked away from you, and even if you have the best of intentions, they still just become a hazy memory of some sort of good love-filled time.
shakespeare had it right. although goodbyes might be presented a little less dramatically in my life (mostly), the pain is still in the parting. but the good is still in the parting too. those sweet memories of love-filled times.
