I had an answer, but I struggled terribly with putting it down on paper because I wanted this interview to “be perfect”. I was too worried about what I looked like or sounded like, so ultimately I had lost “my voice.” I went to my dad for more help. I had wasted a whole hour stressing over how to answer a few questions about myself. My dad told me something very important that day, he said, “The best way to impress someone is to be you”. After meditating on what he said to me I had at least something to put down.
I doubt that future societies will get on with him any better. The entire purpose of society is to create a bulwark against the inner and the outer chaos, in order to make life bearable and to keep the human race alive. And it is absolutely inevitable that when a tradition has been evolved, whatever the tradition is, the people, in general, will suppose it to have existed from before the beginning of time and will be most unwilling and indeed unable to conceive of any changes in it. They do not know how they will live without those traditions that have given them their identity. Their reaction, when it is suggested that they can or that they must, is panic.
Combs taught me that pushing through what you are scared of is only going to hold you back from being successful. I honestly feel that there is nothing holding me back in regards to my passions and my career and one day I will be successful in a field of work that I
This image of me that the world holds on to, mostly stemming from my past transgressions, plays a major part in how I see myself, and I am diligently working to change this aspect of my self-perception. It is trying to be a self-fulfilling prophecy (Wood, 2012), with the world saying that I will be who I was once, but I disagree. I have not written down this goal until now, and I have not placed it anywhere, as my current circumstances prevent me from having a place to put such a statement. I may get it as a tattoo someday, so that I can see it no matter where I am. The statement I would currently use if I did have such a place, would be something like; “I am not the man I used to be, and though my past may be a part of who I am, it is not who I am, it is just my past.” I can definitely refine this goal statement by saying something like, “I will live a life that shows the world I am not my past”, or simply, “I am not my past.” The latter would really be a nice tattoo someday.
In this line the sense that something is already wrong is given. Following that line Bruce Springsteen states “Mama's in the kitchen, baby and all” (Line 2), this line evokes the idea of a mother and child in the kitchen ready to eat with “all”, implying other family members or visitors. Yet life is not complete even if everyone else is there because that ideal family is gone, it is no longer the same or will be the same ever again, this is proven by the use of words Bruce Springsteen has chosen to repeat constantly throughout the whole lyric “Everything is everything/Everything is everything/But you're missing” (Lines 3-5). This line clearly states that everything is just what it is and nothing more, with the help of tone the bitterness is sensed as well as the huge empty hole carried by the individuals’ loss.
The conversation made me feel silly. I was almost ashamed that something like school work was bringing me down. Something so small I was letting run down my attitude. From that day on I gave everything I did my all. If my grandfather could make it through so much and get this far, then I would never again lose hope or motivation to persevere and push through any obstacle that came to me.
What would be the most important thing to relay to everyone? All of us hope we never have to be in a situation like this but let us just think about what would go through our head. What would we say and how would we say it? Delivering the News to Family A mother or father in the crowd would be waiting for some sort of an update, and would be praying to God that first and most importantly their child who works for the San Jose mine is not one of those who are trapped. Then a parent hopes if it is his or her child down there, that the child survived the cave in.
This quote offers clean evidence of McCandless’ willingness to continue climbing while ignoring the reality that his family was exhausted which was a potential danger. Here, McCandless’ attitude started to illustrate the rebelliousness that his father foreshadowed. His family was in total agreement that McCandless felt that “the odds did not [apply] to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the edge” (109). His family attempted to exercise some guidance in order to protect McCandless.
Four obstacles of life. The first obstacle is being told since childhood that you cannot do what it is you want to do. We have to recognize that anything is possible. To overcome the obstacle you have to realize that anything is possible if you set your mind. The second obstacle is following your Personal Legend and giving up doing what you want.
That is I did want to go. But I did not want to go till I had the consent of father and mother. The first thing they asked me when I got home was did you enlist. No I did not but do give your consent and let me go. All the rest of the boys have enlisted and I want to go along.