Circles

Quite honestly, after reading Waiting for Godot I felt this book was a complete, tiring, and utter waste of time. Nothing happens in this book, nothing that has anything relevant to offer us, other than maybe getting depressed and the desire to burn said book. I felt a certain anger towards the characters for their inaction, which is something that unnerves me. You were given a life it might be meaningless to everyone around you but might as well do something with it.

"Vladimir: Well? What do we do?
  Estragon: Don't let's do anything. It's safer
  Vladimir: Let's wait and see what he says.
  Estragon: Who?" (pg.13)

Vladimir and Estragon end up convincing themselves that they should wait for Godots counsel on whether or not they should kill themselves. This is just too much they can't even make the decision of taking their own lives. It came to my mind that this is probably what people are like in their everyday lives, not necessarily suicidal but simply monotonous and boring. Maybe Estragon and Vladimir just represent who we really  are when we're  desperate for something in life to save us from our routines. If you really think of it our lives are simply long and intricate patterns, intricate but patterns none the less taking us back and forth.

Ouroboros

I was listening to a song that I found fitting with the play called Same Mistakes by One Direction, Styles sings "Circles, we're going in circles dizzy is all it makes us we know where it takes us we've been before". Is this not what Estragon and Vladimir are doing? Never really moving forward? Just like  us, stuck in our own monotony. Making fun of the human need to incessantly find meaning in everything that surrounds us. Waiting for something or someone that may never come, it really begs the question; is it really worth waiting for?