Summary Of This Is Water

Awareness comes across the population of humanity in many insightful fashions. This of other desirable traits has one of the greatest impacts on your life, whether you are aware of it or not. Throughout the readings of This is Water and The Three Questions, it was appointed that awareness is a quality of life that is acquired with time. I believe that having this trait has a world of difference if you find a way to merge it into your life; the result could end up being the difference between life or death. The way “awareness” is expressed in these pieces of writing, varies greatly, but can easily relate to each other under discrete circumstances. Some of these principles could greatly impact your life if you just consider the environment
His examples took place in a supermarket and while sitting in traffic. I believe this would be a hard piece of writing for many people to understand that haven’t been able to have these experiences yet, but I can agree with the points he made. He talked about just simply being conscious of things that are happening around you; considering that you may feel like everyone is in your way because you have places to be, everyone looks so stupid and almost cow-like or dead, but the people around you are unconsciously thinking the same thing. When people in your way, you get a sense of annoyance because it feels like they are taking longer than normal and are purposely in your way. However, if you just sit back and consider all the struggles and difficulties that person is going through, it brings a sense of understanding to you and this is how awareness could be introduced into your life. You just never know what is going through the lives of people around you. Another example Wallace made was getting cut off in traffic by a hummer. Although it is not right for someone to be driving like this, there are many problems that could be going on in that person’s life. For example: “…the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he’s trying to rush to the hospital, and he’s in a way bigger, more legitimate
Just in the first sentence the author already mentions that the king basically wants to be aware of everything. He wants to have all of the wisdom in the world, but most importantly, wants the answers to his three questions: “…the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to…if he always knew what was the most important thing to do…” (1). After going upon many answers, and he felt none of them were fit to be the right ones. He sought a man that lived deep in the woods that was named the hermit in the text for his wisdom. The King was very anxious to find this man because he believed that he would retrieve his answers, but was unfortunate in the outcome. He had to do work for the hermit and it ended up helping him in the end. An assassin was out to kill the king from another land, and was injured. The King and hermit went to help this man and healed him without knowing who he was or where he was coming from. Once the man had awakened, he told the king who he was and what he was doing and it shocked the king. At the end of the story the hermit realizes he found the answers to the King’s questions and helps him acknowledge them. “’Do you not see,’ replied the hermit. ‘If you had not pitied me yesterday, and had not dug these beds for me, but had gone your way, that man would have attacked you, and you would have repented of not having stayed with me. So, the most important time was when