Passion In Zeitoun And 127 Hours

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When one is passionate about something, the choices one makes throughout their lives are, on a most basic level, a matter of choosing to pursue one’s passion, or choosing not to. At some point in one’s life, they will come to a challenge; something to overcome; however if one has compromised the pursuit of their passion they will also have the choice to compromise again. Sometimes this challenge is to survive the ordeal and continue to live in line with one’s passion after the boulder, or the hurricane. In 127 Hours, Aron Ralston describes his challenge as also being the blessing of his life. This is because Ralston had an acute passion for searching for self-understanding. While Ralston was always pushing his limits in the extremes of nature he was trying to answer a question he had about himself and his own abilities to fight for survival. In Zeitoun, Abdulrahman Zeitoun is torn between different aspects of his passion that were often opposing. As a contractor, Zeitoun has become intimately aware of much of his adoptive city and he is ever grateful for the opportunity of a prosperous life that New Orleans has provided. This has allowed Zeitoun to pursue his passion of living up to the name of his successful family, through his contracting business, but he is torn when he is forced to choose between the need to provide for his family physically, through his work, and his family’s personal need for him as a father and husband. Both Zeitoun and Ralston overcame their challenge through the pursuit of their own passion and, not without losing something, came out the other side with a completely new perspective of their lives and of their passions. When Zeitoun chose to stay in New Orleans throughout Hurricane Katrina, he wasn’t merely being stubborn and acting out of habit; he was potentially creating an opportunity for him to pursue his passion

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