Status Updates From Hamlet

reading it again, act 1 already makes it clear that hamlet's tragedy isn’t just his father’s death, it’s how everyone around him twists grief into suspicion and chaos. i can’t help but relate to feeling stuck between what’s expected and what feels right.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice…neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend. And borrowing dulleth edge of thrift. This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not them be false to any man. - Polonius