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Oysters
Recently, I've been reading and/or hearing the phrase "The world is your oyster", which made me wonder what exactly it means and how it applies to one's life. Well, since I'm kinda free this week , I've decided to analyze the phrase and google it of course. Okay, so after some lazy googling, I've come up with a somewhat touch-and-go explanation of the phrase:
THE WORLD IS AN (ONE'S) OYSTER - "If you have a lot of money, you can have anything you want. The proverb first appears in Shakespeare's play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1600).'Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.' Act II, Scene II." From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
: : A second reference says the phrase means: "All the pleasures and opportunities of life are open to someone because he is young, rich, handsome, successful, etc. Shakespeare invented or popularized this expression." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
: : OK. I'm confused. Does "the world is my oyster" mean:
: : a. I have money, therefore all the good things of the world are available to me.
: : b. I don't have money, therefore the world is my oyster and I'm going to look for the pearl. OR
: : c. I'm young and good-looking and my mama loves me, therefore even though I don't have money, all the good things of the world are available to me.
: : The world is yours for the taking; whatever you make of it.
Ah-ha, so do you understand the meaning of the phrase now? Haha, Okay, I'm not too sure about the explanation having a monetary link (and the "mama loves me" part... wut???) to it, but I guess money always plays and integral part in our lives doesn't it?
To me, the phrase means that I have keep de-shelling the oyster to search for that pearl because the chances of finding a pearl is definitely not very high. Seems that I'll just be trawling through grains of sand that are embedded in the oyster. HOPEFULLY, I'd find that pearl soon, not now but probably in the future, I will. And I hope that everyone around me will get to find theirs soon.
Now I feel like eating oysters. Oh wait, eating one too many might give one diarrhoea. Haha. =D
Hail Mary.