Shakespeare-Julius Ceaser

I haven't written for so long because I have been so busy with Grandbabies!  I just got a new one this last week. And I've been making gifts for my babies. Mostly crochet. I found the cutest pattern for baby flip-flops!  Maybe I'll write about those projects at a later date.

I just found this Shakespeare that I thought was cool.

Here's a little Shakespeare to brighten your day and send some wisdom your way. 

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shadows and in miseries;

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

"Tis never offered twice; seize the hour

When fortune smiles, and duty points the way;

Nor shrink aside to 'scape the specter fear,

Nor pause, though pleasure beacon from her bower;

But bravely bear thee onward to the goal ."

    (Julius Caesar, Sc. 4, act. 3.)

I will attempt to translate it.

When the flood of the tide leads to fortune you should take it. Or else your life will be full of miseries and shadows. 

The flood of fortune is never offered twice, so if you shrink back in fear or pause even for pleasure, you loose fortune. 

I like that there is a difference between pleasure and fortune.  Pleasure may turn you from fortune and fortune will take you to your ventures and away from shadows and miseries (plural) all your .