Blog #9

 Barbra Graham’s journey was a hard and long addiction of quitting everything in her life. She first began with dropping out of college her sophomore year. Then she ran off with a boy named Brian and this is who continued her down the dark path of her addiction. He began by moving her away from her family and friends, hopping from town to town and place to place. They were running off to find happiness in all these places but only finding failure. In the end, she learned that quitting and saying no all her life is what lead her to failure and pushed out her family and friends. 

Brook’s main point is that college graduates are talked up all this hype and excitement their whole life about entering the job force. But when they graduate they aren't finding any jobs like they thought due to our horrible economy. They want to go out and do things that they're interested in or are passionate about, but cant because the job either pays bad or they cant find one. He brings up how everything in graduation speeches are about “you.”  When they go to find jobs after graduation they're struggling because the job that they wanted isn’t available for them. 

One way I see these articles connecting is they both talk about how they don't like engaging in things that don't satisfy their passion. In Barbra Graham’s article, in paragraph 2, the first sentence states “I had never been much good at doing things that didn't arouse my passion.” Then in Brooks”s article, in paragraph 12, the second sentence states “But, of course, when you read a biography of someone you admire, it’s rarely the things that made them happy that compel your admiration.” The connection is interesting because Graham says that she doesn't like doing anything which she's passionate about when Brooks is saying that we rarely see people pursuing things of their passions. Another way that these connect is talking about life being all about “you.” In Graham’s article in paragraph four she talks about how she doesn't like things not arousing her passions with basically makes her selfish. In the last sentence if her article she states “Cutting the ties that bind.” In Brook’s article in paragraphs 6 and 7 he makes it all about “yourself”, repeating “your” over and over. In his last sentence of his article he says “The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It is to lose yourself.”

blog #8

In his article Brook’s talks about how election season brings out the anxiety of people. All though, he isn't necessarily talking about the election its self. Just the worry and sorrow it brings out of the people in our society in the American people. A study found that more than half of the Americans begin to start to associate more with stress during election season. These people are experience 2 kinds of anxieties, the good and the bad. The good will warn and lead you to the dangers that could occur, and the bad can lead to self-destruction in your thoughts. Rather than the worry, stress, and anxiety leading to a positive in Americans lives, it is becoming extremely destructive and tearing down everyone around us. People are beginning to question their freedom and quality of life which can lead them down a dark path of anxieties in life.

I can see where this is coming from because people do let their stress and anxieties lead to destructing their lives instead of using that negativity to change the way they think positively on their life. The richer countries or people have a higher stress rate than the poorer countries or people because they feel like they are missing out on more. These affluent (rich) people have a lot of access to things other people on poorer countries do not due to their over abundance of money coming in. In all, these countries/ people do experience worry as in the fear of missing out and a dizziness in their freedom. They have a continuous unease that they don't really understand the whole meaning of their life. 

Anxiety really changes and effects the way people thing. This is why Brook’s used the election as an example of anxieties in the American people. It makes people begin to think about how they use their money. I know my parents think a lot about taxes and how the next president is going to change that. It can bring out worry and stress in people if they think a possible candidate will raise taxes and cause them to have more money taken out of their pay check when people who don't work are paying very little in taxes or nothing at all. This is just an example of one of the many ways people can become in an anxious state in America or even other countries who thrive in their economy.