" King
When sorrows come, they come not in single spies,
but in battalions: first her father slain;"
from Hamlet Act4. sc.5 ln.83-84
Although I usually take quotes from songs, this time I decided to flip the script a bit.
I've taken to reading Shakespeare again and I am slightly fond of Hamlet.
In an assignment last night, I was asked to select my favourite quote from Act 4 and then give some insight as to why it is my favourite.
For me, the assignment was easy. The quote for this posting, says it all and epitomizes the last year and a half of my life.
Most recently it seems as if there has been a resurgence of unfortunate events occurring in my life. I thought that the rain had stopped pouring, but in reality that was just a dry patch before the hurricane hit.
It is almost as if King Claudius was speaking directly about me, almost as if this is some parallel universe, one in which I am the fair Ophelia.
Last year it began with my paternal grandmother's death, which was succeeded by the untimely death of my father and then the even more untimely death of my maternal grandmother to whom I was extremely close to.
It's like that old saying, "when it rains, it pours". That couldn't be more true. My life has been in a seemingly endless downward spiral since last year.
It is as if I'm one of the octogenarians in those corny Life Alert commercials, " I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Overwhelmed, spread to thin, exhausted, feeling insufficient, self-conscious and the first to admit it, I am a heart laden with depression.
