Blog 8 Brooks or Graham ?

Who’s article will stick with me? Which will I remember forever? David Brooks or Barbra Graham? I would have to say Barbara Graham “Confessions of a Quit addict” even though David Brooks has quite a few good points in his article “It’s Not About You” like “Most successful young people don’t look inside and then plan a life. They look outside and find a problem which summons  their life”. And “The purpose in life is not to find yourself it’s to lose yourself” I feel like I would remember Barbara and what she went through every time I feel like quitting or giving up. Thinking of her story will motivate me to keep trying for myself and for the ones I love because if she could go from being homeless “We found ourselves living in a rusty old man on the outskirts of Rome” to a successful single mother with her essay published in a College textbook “So I did what any self respecting jobaholick would do I became a writer” It’s hard to change your life for the better especially if all you’ve ever known was “The rush of cutting loose” and if Barbara can turn her life around like that who’s to say I can’t accomplish half of what she has? I must say I have taken advice from David’s article. I feel like overall he is saying that we don’t need to listen to the baby boomers we need to do what we need to do as adults and tie ourselves down to the responsibilities that we have. I don’t think he is saying to not chase your dreams. He’s just saying that we need to follow our dreams to certain extent. Like a reality check, bills won’t get paid by us following our dreams. Towards the end of Barbara’s article I think she realized that she had a son she had to provide for and finally realized that traveling the world. going from job to job and having no support system would not be what’s best for her and her son. She came back to reality and became a conformist. Everyone has that one person they look up to, whether its their mom, a famous person or just someone they admire. But for me, after reading this article I have found someone new too admire. It takes a strong person to succeed in life no matter their goal but it takes even a stronger person to fail over and over again and yet keep striving until they finally get to that point in their life where they are happy with themselves. I want to be like Barbra, I don’t necessarily want to go through what she went through but I want to have the will to keep going even when life isn’t going my way like she did. Maybe one day ill have an article in a textbook that students can learn from, who knows, but I will never stop trying to be the best that I can and do the best that I can do.