Quote of the day by William Shakespeare: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely..." - a timeless lesson on change, identity and life

• William Shakespeare (Image: Wikipedia)Two people can look at their own life story and understand its shape in completely different ways.
• One sees a single, continuous identity, the same person carrying the same fixed role from beginning to end, expected to remain recognisably consistent throughout.
• The other sees something closer to a sequence of distinct roles, each one genuinely different from the last, entered and exited on a schedule nobody fully controls.