“I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough. Without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
- DH Lawrence
In this quote, I believe that DH Lawrence is comparing wild animals that suffer and how different they are to everyone else; humans. It states "I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself" meaning his eyes had never came across a wild animal that was depressed because it had to look for it's own food, that it couldn't just walk into a gorercy store and buy food there. Meanwhile, humans get depressed for all sort of things, normally things that are completely insignificant. For example, a girl would go completely insane if a nail broke. They would act as if there whole world was falling apart, when in fact it isn't such a big deal; it'd grow back. Shouldn't we be happy that it wasn't eaten off by a tiger? Wild animals have to compete for food and if they don't get any, they'd just have to starve for one day until the hunt begins again. When they don't get food, they don't feel sorry for themselves. They don't go back to there den and feel sorry for themselves. Meanwhile, people go to the store and pick out what they want to eat and when the store doesn't have what they want, they'd sulk, or get moody, or even feel sorry for themselves. When they get hungry in the middle of the night, they could make themselves a sandwich, or go to a Seven Eleven. There aren't any Seven Eleven's in the wild.
"I am nobody who are you?"
-Emily Dickinson
I've always been the middle child until three years ago. I'm an older brother, with responsibilities to my younger siblings. I've always seemed to the "pride" of the family, because I academically excel. I'm paranoid and freak out about my grades and I constantly worry weather or not my parents would be pleased with my report card. I worry about passing tests and finishing homeworks on time, and if I'm falling behind in a class, I seem to fall apart quickly. I'm Vice President of Student Government, and attend the meetings regularly, with responsibilities to the student body. I'm also a member of the National Honors Society with the responsibility to participant in activities as well. I'm extremely fussy and orderly about many things. I'm misophobic and slightly speratophobic refusing to flush public toilets with my hands, instead doing it with my foot, or hold the poles on the trains with my bare hand. I'm a friend to many, mostly trying to make everyone happy and trying extraordinarily hard to put a smile on there faces. I'm normally a calm person, but break down easily when something goes wrong in life. I hate obstacles preferring a clean road in life, but I get stressed out when they appear. I'm me.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
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