Live Life To The Fullest

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“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.” This quote by the narrator in the movie Fight Club best summarizes the similarities in the pieces Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. One of the themes in these stories is to find out your fate in life. This means finding out one’s purpose or what a person is going to do with their life. The other theme is to make sure your life is great, fun, and fulfilling because it passes by quickly, and one can never know when it could be cut short. In other words, this means to never take a day for granted and to be thankful for life. The pieces Self-Reliance and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” share similarities about life’s message and how it should be lived, both offering a different view of each of them. Finding out your fate in life could be one of the most important things in your life. Once a person finds this out, they know what they are living for and what their goal in life is. It could make life a lot easier and less stressful once they discover it. This quote from Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” shows how fate can be so important in someone’s life: “We slowly drove, he knew no haste, / And I had to put away / My labor, and my leisure too,” (5-7). Death had happened over her life and she thought about her time on earth and death was creeping up slowly. She had to know her fate and put away her efforts because it was going to happen no matter what she did to stop it. Also, believing and trusting in one’s self is the only way a person can find out their fate in life. In Emerson’s Self-Reliance, the quote “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string” (362), means to always believe in yourself and not worry about your fate because in the end, everything will work itself out. Your fate in life is the
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