Just Wondering

There was one phrase that I really liked. In The Knight’s Tale “Then is it best, for a worthy fame, To die when he has the most fame.” (Part IV lines 3055-3056). It made me go back to the last match of Andre Agassi, in the U.S Open, I was little and I asked my father “Why is he retiring when he is so young? He can still play Tennis” and he told me “Sweetheart, it is best to retire when you are at your highest point and not when you are forgotten and defeated”. I’ve always remembered that. I still wonder how can you calculate when you are at your highest point. How can you have the wisdom to stop and not stay there for the greed of more fame or victories and ending up loosing everything. It applies to Poker too. And with Aquiles, that it also has a connection with The Knight’s Tale, since it takes place in Greece. “When Hector was brought, just recently slain, To Troy. Alas, the lamentation that was there,” (Part IV lines 3832-3833) Referring to the pain of loosing someone. Aquiles was killed being a celebrity, the bravest hero and the worst villain. He did it just right, by chance though, he didn’t choose to live at his highest point. Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, even Heath Ledger just after playing the role of Joker in The Dark Knight (The Knight’s Tale, The Dark Knight, see the connection?), but they died, they left tragically, if they had not died at that time, would they have been strong enough to leave when they had to?