Every hardship a person encounters in their time on earth is defining of their life and of themselves. A person’s life does not plateau once you reaching your life-defining moment. This is something I credit Viktor for in the sense that life’s meaning is a constant journey. Psychological state or state of mind is very important in a person’s life. Viktor Frankl is not the first person to emphasize this, but he definitely made it very clear through his accounts.
This reveals that Esther feels as though everything is receding, leaving her behind in her new environment. She is evidently experiencing seclusion, which emphasizes her current mental state. She is undergoing isolation from the society as a result of her subconsciously intentional self-solitude. However, she later begins feeling as though she is free from the factors that restrain her from reaching her dreams and desires. Esther is skiing with Buddy Willard before surpassing him, entranced in her exhilaration as “people and trees receded on either hand like the dark sides of a tunnel as [she] hurtled on to the still, bright point at the end of it, the pebble at the bottom of the well, the white sweet baby cradled in its mother’s belly” (97).
Like most, my life is always changing and things do not always work out as planned. I think it is important to remember to stay in charge especially when you are down. For me, when I am down, that is when I am most susceptible to be influenced by others or my surroundings. I do not really agree though when the book discusses using this map for “designing the rest of your life” (Life Launch pg 48). To me, that sounds too much like a perfect world and like we all have enough time to sit down and plan everything out and then
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech is a novel which has plenty of themes like time never stops or nature has bond with human life.But the most important of these themes is that people mustn’t judge a man until they’ve walked two moons in their moccasins, until they be them for a long time. And this is entirely about empathizing. Walking in someone else’s moccasins is important in Walk Two Moons because book wants to teach us that empathizing shows the truth. The reasons for this are people mustn’t be biased, because everyone doesn’t seem like who they really are. And empathizing helps us to notice things that we couldn’t realize before.
Although, I know this is hoping for too much, but I can gradually see small changes in what people do and say in the modern world. Even the little things count, and could make someone’s whole day. Walt Whitman is expressing in his poem that one day all humans can be on the same path, through all the imagery of nature, and using uplifting key words while listing human hardships. He is saying that we all go through the same journeys as each other, and every single one of us experiences something that is devastating. We are all alike in some way, shape, or form.
Reflections of a Swingmaker. As I was reading Reflections of a Swingmaker, I noticed the passion of the writer, her need for the world to understand the importance and the value of playing therapy, and how impacting can be for children. A simple playground could not only change a kids life, but it can help children express their deepest desire to be children, and enjoy the most beautiful and important stages of a persons life. Unfortunately children around the world have experience pain, natural disasters, terrorism, war, accidents and assault, as the author was saying, and is sad to see that many kids have no time to be just kids. Kids are naturally happy beings and when that happiness is interrupted is difficult to bring it back, at least without any future harm.
Towards the end of the chapter he provides strategies and exercises that we can practice and use in order to change our Perfectionism ways. The Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar Are you constantly trying to keep up with your busy and sometimes stressful life while at the same time striving for happiness? We all want a perfect life but in reality and as most of us know, there is no such thing. We work so hard on something and we sometimes get let down and we often feel like a failure. In the Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar, he sheds some light into the possibility of obtaining a happy life even with the struggles and challenges that may come our way.
Coetzee uses animals in his novel Disgrace to become metaphorical images of the characters and in some way the characters become animal-like characters. It also reflects the struggles that they go through in the post-colonial era. Animals are significant in the novel Disgrace become metaphorical to the people in the novel and how their situations that they find themselves in change them to become the animals. A certain situation can make them result into a certain animal, but they also change from one animal to another animal, depending on what curve ball life troughs at them. According to Patton (2009) it is clear that from the beginning of the novel David Lurie has a strong distinction between humans and animals.
Deontology looks at the reason that an act is done and the rule as to why someone chooses to act. It is regularly contrasted with the consequentialist theory of utilitarianism. In research it usually becomes necessary to use animals to find if something is safe to use. During this research there has to be care as to not mistreat the animal and to cause the least amount of pain or distress. Some say that this is impossible and we should go as far as to not use products that are tested on animals.
‘Does it matter ?—losing your sight?... There's such splendid work for the blind; And people will always be kind.’ Another difference between the two poems is the tone in which they are written in and the overall message created by the poets by using certain tones in their writing. ‘Does it Matter’ has quite a prominent sarcastic tone throughout, an example of