David Wallace Foster This Is Water Summary

"This is Water" by David Wallace Foster is a speech about self-awareness in life. Wallace starts off the speech with a joke to quickly get his point across. Foster mentions two smaller fish being asked, "How the Water feels" by an older fish to where the smaller fish reply with, "what the hell is water." Foster then goes on by talking about how adults who live by routine tend to live sub-consciously which means that they're practically living without thinking about it. Foster then goes on to talk about self-awareness while waiting in line for the supermarket. Mentioning the two young fish's reaction to the most obvious thing around them, the water they swim in. They don't understand it because they chose to ignore it just like how Foster says