traveling

In World Literature, we began this semester by learning about travelers. So, tonight I starting thinking about the past sixteen weeks and began to see the path that I have traveled and all of the things I have learned. It is amazing to me that writers in general can write fiction to explore social issues and maybe take a poke at the idiotic way that some parts of society act. These stories, if taken on face value can be a source of entertainment but you could dig a little deeper into a story and into yourself and get so much more from the literature. It is so amazing that they can construct their stories in a way to make you think differently or make one reader see a creature differently than the other reader does. This reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite philosophers Kahlil Gibran: “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” the way we look at life can determine the way we look at literature and I really enjoyed traveling through these stories with all of my classmates and Mrs. Baldwin. I hope that I can step back and see things from others perspective and learn to be a better person. In the words of Candide’s oracle Pangloss I wish all of you “the best of all possible worlds”(528).