But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Fake it 'till you make it.

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.