questioning being

To Be Or Not To Be

has never been the question 

It's more how to be

to be grateful

to be kind

to be generous

to be responsible. 

We call ourselves students

but how much are we studying what's really important

how to put your problems in perspective

how to be outspoken

how to defend ourselves

how to fall in love. 

There are concepts we treat like they're rhetorical

but they aren't 

how to treat women is not rhetorical or we would all do it right

how to coexist with people different than you is not rhetorical

or racism would not exist 

how to do taxes

how to do a job interview

how to mourn a loss

how to handle being alive

it's all things we overlook 

in favor of more pressing concepts

like the hypotenuses of triangles 

and how to write a thesis

maybe the thesis should not be

to be or not to be

maybe the thesis should ask:

what is the question?