Thursday, March 3, 2011

Work For What You Got- warning, this post may contain results on nonsense

          I am still in the wonderful world of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but I don't really want to talk about anything to deep in that book. All you need to know, is that the  9 year old main character, Oskar, travels the city, mainly on foot, to talk to every person with the last name Black. You may think that he does it geographically, but he does it alphabetically. 
          I always felt so bad for Oskar, walking 20 miles because he is too scared to take public transportation because his father was killed in 9/11. I had to wonder if Oskar ever wished that he could just teleport there ( he probably has and invented a way to do that). But Oskar would also say that you need to work for what you want. 
          I always thought, when you wish that you could just get there already, or teleport, you do in a way. Like maybe there are two universes and in one universe things happen when you snap your fingers, but in the other one, the one we live in, we have to do the work. So if you wish you could just be home, the other you is home, but you have to actually do the transportation to get there. 
          Ok ok thats really weird but think about it. There is this conception of celebrities and other rich people who look like they made millions with no effort. Anyone who seems that they get something without effort, is just that. It seems that way. Somehow they out effort to it, somehow.
         

1 comment:

  1. YAY! You did a post on this! What you are saying about celebrities is interesting though. It can seem like it's effortless, but it's really not. They are under a lot of pressure(Carter's Big Break). In the end you really do have to work for everything you get. But it is also true that celebrities often on some level got lucky. There are incredible actors that were never famous. So while you have to work for everything you get, sometimes you need a certain amount of luck!

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