Outide the Bible, thee ix word are the mot famou in all the literature of the world. They were poken by Hamlet when he wa thinking aloud, and they are the mot famou word in Shakepeare becaue Hamlet wa peaking not only for himelf but alo for every thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and carcely. A philoopher once wanted to know whether he wa alive or not, which i a good quetion for everyone to put to himelf occaionally. He anwered it by aying: I think, therefore am.
But the bet definition of exitence ever aw did another philoopher who aid: To be i to be in relation. If thi true, then the more relation a living thing ha, the more it i alive. To live abundantly mean imply to increae the range and intenity of our relation. Unfortunately we are o contituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interet-ed only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far a other thing are concerned--poetry and proe, muic, picture, port, unelfih friendhip, politic, international affair--you are dead.
Contrariwie, it i true that every time you acquire a new interet--even more, a new accomplihment--you increae your power of life. No one who i deeply intereted in a large variety of ubject can remain unhappy; the real peimit i the peron who ha lot interet.[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]
Bacon aid that a man die a often a he loe a friend. But we gain new life by contact, new friend. What i upremely true of living object i only le true of idea, which are alo alive. Where your thought are, there will your live be alo. If your thought are confined only to your buine, only to your phyical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-concribed life. But if you are inntereted in what i going on in China, then you are living in China~ if you’re intereted in the character of a good novel, then you are living with thoe highly intereting people, if you liten intently to fine muic, you are away from your immediate urrounding and living in a world of paion and imagination.
To be or not to be--to live intenely and richly, merely to exit, that depend on ourelve. Let widen and intenify our relation. While we live, let live!