2 years, 4 months & blah blah days ago
naalala ko lang basahin nung isang araw.. english paper nung 3rd year.. pinadala ko 'to sa kanya nung na-ospital siya dati kasi natuwa akong nakakuha ako ng perfect score tas dahil tungkol nga sa kanya.. ewan ko kung ano nang ginawa niya dun sa original copy..
-------In most parts of the play, Hamlet is construed as insane because of his deep thoughts and some of his actions that people are not used to seeing. A lot of people tend to assume a person’s character even just after they have met them for the first time. Some people even live their whole lives not knowing what another person is like. Luckily for me, I am, little by little, getting to know my older brother - the one that I have never really understood and hated almost my whole life.
My brother, like Hamlet, can sometimes (or even most of the time) be misunderstood by people. I, for one, usually tend to overlook his actions and interpret them as something out of this world - something only he would do. But behind those unusual actions is just a boy trying to live his life.
Kuya Gio, as I have been used to call him, is just a year older than I am. We have been fighting over everything since the day I was born. Things only got worse when high school came. A lot of things happened to him (to us) during his first year in high school. Almost everything he did seemed to be unacceptable. It even got to the point where he ran away and didn’t want to go back home. When he finally decided to go home, I hated him so much that I couldn’t even bear seeing him around the house. He also ran away again the following year. When my mom and my other brother decided to pick him up from school, he just ran from them until they couldn’t find him. His having the guts to make things difficult for our family made me hate him even more. I was so sure that he didn’t care even a bit about our family and how we felt.
It was only this Christmas that I realized how much he really loved us. He wrote a long letter for all of us to read, and in that letter, he said all of the things he has never said before - like how he didn’t run away from my mom because he held a grudge but because he wanted to think and realize what he had been doing. I assumed that he never cared, but he actually did and still does. In Shakespeare’s play, people thought that Hamlet was just plainly insane because of the things he did, but he did it just because he wanted to protect Gertrude from the supposed murderer of Old King Hamlet because Hamlet loved them both.
My brother has changed a lot, yet it is still hard for me to understand exactly what he is thinking. Like Hamlet, my brother “talks to himself” through the songs that he writes. I have only read lyrics from one of his songs but I was totally surprised at what he had written and how he had written it. The lyrics were so deep that I couldn’t even believe that he was the one who wrote it. Hamlet is deep in a way that he reflected on what was happening. Maybe my brother was able to write that song because he had already gone through a lot and those experiences gave him a lot of thoughts in his mind.
Kuya Gio may choose to do a lot of things differently. He may not always be what people expect him to be. But no matter how odd, strange, eccentric or weird he is, he is still like any other human being who definitely deserves to be respected. He is still the brother I can’t seem to stop loving. “I love her for that fact na at times we’re the exact opposite of each others lives..” - That was what he said about me in his letter for us during Christmas. I think I feel the same way and I think that is how the other characters in the play should have thought about Hamlet.
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-------In most parts of the play, Hamlet is construed as insane because of his deep thoughts and some of his actions that people are not used to seeing. A lot of people tend to assume a person’s character even just after they have met them for the first time. Some people even live their whole lives not knowing what another person is like. Luckily for me, I am, little by little, getting to know my older brother - the one that I have never really understood and hated almost my whole life.
My brother, like Hamlet, can sometimes (or even most of the time) be misunderstood by people. I, for one, usually tend to overlook his actions and interpret them as something out of this world - something only he would do. But behind those unusual actions is just a boy trying to live his life.
Kuya Gio, as I have been used to call him, is just a year older than I am. We have been fighting over everything since the day I was born. Things only got worse when high school came. A lot of things happened to him (to us) during his first year in high school. Almost everything he did seemed to be unacceptable. It even got to the point where he ran away and didn’t want to go back home. When he finally decided to go home, I hated him so much that I couldn’t even bear seeing him around the house. He also ran away again the following year. When my mom and my other brother decided to pick him up from school, he just ran from them until they couldn’t find him. His having the guts to make things difficult for our family made me hate him even more. I was so sure that he didn’t care even a bit about our family and how we felt.
It was only this Christmas that I realized how much he really loved us. He wrote a long letter for all of us to read, and in that letter, he said all of the things he has never said before - like how he didn’t run away from my mom because he held a grudge but because he wanted to think and realize what he had been doing. I assumed that he never cared, but he actually did and still does. In Shakespeare’s play, people thought that Hamlet was just plainly insane because of the things he did, but he did it just because he wanted to protect Gertrude from the supposed murderer of Old King Hamlet because Hamlet loved them both.
My brother has changed a lot, yet it is still hard for me to understand exactly what he is thinking. Like Hamlet, my brother “talks to himself” through the songs that he writes. I have only read lyrics from one of his songs but I was totally surprised at what he had written and how he had written it. The lyrics were so deep that I couldn’t even believe that he was the one who wrote it. Hamlet is deep in a way that he reflected on what was happening. Maybe my brother was able to write that song because he had already gone through a lot and those experiences gave him a lot of thoughts in his mind.
Kuya Gio may choose to do a lot of things differently. He may not always be what people expect him to be. But no matter how odd, strange, eccentric or weird he is, he is still like any other human being who definitely deserves to be respected. He is still the brother I can’t seem to stop loving. “I love her for that fact na at times we’re the exact opposite of each others lives..” - That was what he said about me in his letter for us during Christmas. I think I feel the same way and I think that is how the other characters in the play should have thought about Hamlet.
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