Ductile Anchors

“Not a whit, we defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.” Hamlet says this in the final act as he and Horatio prepare for his final duel with Laertes. He’s obviously thinking of death, has been thinking of death.

The comparison comes to the biblical quote. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.”

Sparrows are valued, and somehow we retain more value than even many of them.

So why do I only feel better than a few?