As You Like It

I sent a section of "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare to my boyfriend. He has a Carpe Diem tattoo, and when I saw it in the themes I knew that sending him something from it would be perfect. However, when he read the poem he had no idea what it was about. Of course. He's always making fun of me for the crazy things I read. But this time I made him read it again, and again and still he had no idea what it was about.

"Life?" He guessed. "It's unavoidable?"

Finally, he was getting closer. His previous guesses had been things like, "a dude," and "I have no idea, I didn't read the play." But now he was on the right track.

In the end he gave up trying to decipher the poem and showed me a song on youtube instead. Musicians--they're so easily distracted. The best part of whole thing was when he turned to me, toward the end of the song and said, "This movement is my favorite, it's Carpe Diem."

And he still doesn't know why I thought that was so fantastic.