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William Shakespeare's plays remain popular and well-respected even hundred of years later, people never stop loving, or hating. And why? Because these issues are all explicitly timeless. Shakespeare's plays empathises on tragicomedies, which include: King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, among many others. The themes of these plays are also, timeless, which is the main constituent as to why such art pieces remain revered to as far as about 400 years later.

Romances, Kinship, Human suffering. Aren't these timeless? No matter the era, or the place and country, all of us would have probed into these areas of life at one point or another. Oh, by the way, here's what William Shakespeare looks like:


Nice hair, William. Nice hair. Very flamboyant, I just love how those 2 tuffs stick out from the side...


Moving on, let us introduce the conceptionalisation of immortality.

Firstly, 'Immortality' is the title of a book I'd just devoured recently. And NO, it does not glorify fairy tales of deities or some mad king looking for an elixer of life. Instead, the author bites onto timeless topics and writes them into the form of a novel. Main characters: Paul(Agnes's husband, and later on, Laura's), Agnes (Paul's wife. She has nothing to do with the other Agnes, by the way.), Laura (Agnes's younger sister), Bernard (Paul's friend), Professor Avenarius (Laura's secret lover). I have got to admit, the sophistication of this writer really blows me away, there are some parts of the book which I had to read a couple of times before I could fully comprehend those crap-seeming words into decipherable ideals. Out of so many novels I'd read, this has got to be the one... 'The Sophisticated One'.

Laura suffers the heart-rending experience of having many men walking in and out of her life, but none shall become her true love. Her life can be comparable to an attractive woman walking in the Tube tunnel all alone in vibrant red clothing, she receives stares of varying purposes, but all the attention shall only serve to heighten the loneliness. Busy commuters all rush towards a destination, while Laura shall drift through life like a piece of broken plywood on the open seas. This, is her suffering. In another case, Bernard, a news reporter on radio, known for his controversial reports, one day had a man ran up to him and awarded him a certificate. On the certificate was printed, 'A compleat ass'. Paul had probably known he was hated by many for his news reports, but he could not have expected that. The incident affected him greatly, he considered it as a direct hit to his self-esteem. That day shall be deeply engraved his mind, the sight of 'A compleat ass' never to leave him. Therefore, that certificate shall be immortal for as long as he lives. Isn't it the same with us all? Everyone are not spared their fair share of criticisms all the time. Just have to bear with it, we are who we are, and no other 'compleat asses' are gonna change that.

Agnes and Laura always had a kind of invisible sibling rivalry between them ever since they were young. Be it the amount of attention from parents, or marriage partners, they've had clashes of sorts. Their mother had always doted on Laura more. Agnes even had this visualisation: "At an execution ground, there is a mother who is about to watch her husband and two children get gun down by the vicous rifles. At this point, the lieutenant gives her two choices, she could choose to rescue two of the executees. The mother rushes forward, and carries off her two precious children. The husband realises that it is his duty to die, in order to save the rest of his family. He gazes sadly at the backs of his wife and children as their distance gradually widens. Now imagine this, what if the option of 2 executees turned into 1? Which child would the mother save? Agnes or Laura?" The two sisters have helped out each other a lot since the past, but both of them knew it was nothing but a facade, a mask that was deemed neccesary. When their father left almost all of his assets to Agnes in secret, Agnes decided it was right to keep what's hers. She felt that Laura had been too busy pursuing life's pleasures rather than taking care of their ageing father. This, is 'kinship'. However, we must also remember that kinship is a fine, delicate line on which we must tread with caution. For as warm as it can sound, the person on the other end of this thin thread can always bite back. But love stays as this thread's strengthener.

Even as a grown woman, the reason why she would still be so obsessed with sibling rivalry was mainly because she felt threatened by her sister's presence in front of her own husband. She even tried to persuade Paul to ignore Laura when Laura had suicidal thoughts. She was right to feel threatened, because when Agnes died a few years later of a car accident, Paul remarried. Remarried to Agnes's sister, Laura. Paul was devastated by the death of Agnes, even though he knew Agnes didn't really love him. Their love had dissolved into nothing a few years into their marriage. The initial excitement of wooing, of being a couple, had been extinguished into melancholy grey smoke. This, is romance. Or is it? Therefore, we must keep in mind what the researchers tell us, LOVE is only a chemical reaction which lasts for around 12 months, it'll need constant maintainence after that. After the 'raging hormones' die down, things will just tune down from lust to cuddles. Professor Avenarius, Laura's secret lover, could do nothing about it when Laura wanted to marry Paul.

Sufferings, Kinship, Romance. Humans will always suffer in one way or another, that's what we were born for. Kinship will never be eradicated, our family will always be there, whether you like it or not. Romance is a need, not a want (We all have hormones, don't we?), it only just depends on how you resist it. These timeless topics will retain immortality, just as how some people have gained immortality in our minds due to something they did which affected our lives greatly.

From a personal point of view, immortality just means something or someone who is here to stay. You can whine and scream and kick around about it, but it won't do any good. Sufferings, who likes them? I'm sure many of us likes romance, that's why so many of you are raving about the 'Twilight' series anyway. But don't romance just comes with its own share of sufferings anyway?

"Time doesn't lounge around waiting for you to catch up. Timeless things do, but they can, and will turn charmless if you stand around waiting too long to treasure them."