The Hamlet Project

In the training this weekend
Our teacher quoted Beckett
Over and over again.
The one where he says something like
“You were born and there is no cure for that.”
We are all subject to our birth
to the where
and the when
Taurus or Virgo
To whom.
Born to privilege
Born to poverty
Born with the will to drive forward
Or with the desire to lay back.
The bestseller businessman says
We don’t really change
That we are born with certain strengths
And certain weaknesses
And these will always be so in some measure.
We are subject to our own make-up –
To our own genes and patterns.
We keep beating our fists against who we are
Not wanting to be subject to anything
Not even ourselves.