David Foster Wallace This Is Water Analysis

To be mindful, conscious and compassionate is a state of begin in life . You can't have one without the other because they all connected to our everyday life . Two essays that proves that mindful , conscious and compassionate is a state of begin in life is “Seeing” by Annie Dillard and “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace. In This is Water by David Foster Wallace he uses compassion to develop his speech by talking about his concern and his day-to-day life. Compassion is the sympathetic pity and concern for the suffering or misfortunes of others. Wallace says, “ But please don't worry that i'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or-directedness or so called virtues”(3). He is not trying to go into too much detail so that others can feel pity for him.He also talk about human nature and how we only care about ourselves and put ourselves first. Wallace says, “ Everything in my own immediate experience support my deep belief that I am the center of the universe , the realest , most vivid and important person in existence”(3). He telling us that everybody care about themselves and think that they
are superior. Because if you don't think, are take care of yourselves then who is going to care for you so you have to put yourself first in life because others won't do that for you. In Seeing by Annie Dillard .
Annie uses consciousness and mindfulness to develop her essay. By talking about how others see things differently from other in society . Dillard says, “ I once spent a full three minutes looking at a bullfrog that was so unexpectedly large I couldn't see it even though a dozen enthusiastic camper were shouting direction finally i ask what color am i looking for and a fellow said green at last i pick out the frog i saw what painters are up against the things wasn't green at all but the color of wet hickory bark”(4). Dillard is showing that everyone see and picture thing differently from others. Some people look at stuff with more meaning while other just look at it just for the simple things. We need to start look for more meaning in things because it will give us more understanding of what the
mean. To be mindful, conscious and compassionate is emotion and feelings we all have . Other may only have a little of each but we all have stress in our life but other people deal with their stress differently from others and look at things differently from each other so we are all the same and we all have emotion.