Crossroad tales
Choice is a Herculean task: to take or to leave, to go left or to go right, to do or not to do, or, as Shakespeare would put it in Elizabethan, “To be or not to be; that is the question…” that each individual comes across many a time in the course of their lifetime. The weight of it all comes from weighing the pros with the cons, comparing the advantages with the disadvantages while in the same process leaving room for those unforeseen eventualities that may come across. A lot of protagonists come across this issue in the world of literature, from Doctor Faustus to Hamlet; the issue of the impact the choices we make have on our lives is central to the existence of any one individual seeking to make sense of it all.