All The World's A Stage

I have never understood any of Shakespeare's works at a glance. That man can write ruff. He has the ability to compact a poem and at the same time weave into it profound wisdom. My favorite of his sonnets is ''Let me not to the marriage of true minds". That poem speaks volumes of truth.
The poem that got me thinking today however is:

"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.

Okay I am not going to pretend I understood every message Uncle Shakespeare wanted to put across. However at a glance, the first four lines made tonnes of sense.  Hidden in those lines i found lessons i intend to keep for life."

Lesson 1: "Indeed all the world is a stage. And all the men and women merely players." Irrespective of who you are and what you do, you are just a player on life's huge stage. You are not the totality of life. You need another to make your role meaningful. So why look down on people. Why do you so arrogantly belittle others.Try getting your own stage then, MARS is still unoccupied.

Lesson 2: "They have their exists and their entrances." Keep in mind that no one plays a permanent role in your life. You meet people when the time is right and when they decide to leave it only means that their act has come to an end. Let them go. Deal with it.

Lesson 3: "One man in his time plays many roles." Life is in stages. These phases will unfold naturally. You can't escape it, but you can plan for it. Play each role to the best of your abilities when its time comes. The success of your next phase in life is determined by how well you made use of the current one. 

Once again Uncle Shakespeare has shaken the sphere of our world with his unmatched talent.

UNCLE SHAKESPEARE