Given my life and the stage that I am currently at in making a transition from a teenager to a young adult, “Returning to What’s Natural” by Amelia Baxter-Stoltzfus was the logical essay to analyze. Amelia’s essay provides a central belief that I feel is not only relevant to me, but also many other college students. The author’s belief is that we have to continually grow and change as a person while still remembering where we come from. Although not easily noticeable, “Returning to What’s Natural” does display support to the central belief. I feel it’s important to find this support because Amelia’s belief is one that a majority of college students might also have. We are all transitioning to a period in our life that is so entirely different
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A good example of this was when the essay read, “We can’t be toddlers or teenagers forever, and there’s too much out there to experience to make me want to dwell too much in the past” (Allison, 2009, p. 28). This really woke something up in me after I read it. Yes, I along with other Freshmen might be scared to actually try and experience this new freedom that we have been thrust into. However, reading this sentence I feel almost ashamed that I’m not jumping at every opportunity to grow and change into the new person I want to be. This emotion was invoked in me by simply saying we can’t stay who we currently are forever. That wasn’t the only argument I found to be very convincing. As stated in the essay, “Maybe the house I lived in with my parents will never be home again” (Allison, 2009, p. 27). This one really opened my eyes, more so than this first example. At first I didn’t think this statement was true. To me home would always be home. However, I went home for a weekend while I was moved in early for volleyball preseason and accidentally called my dorm home, while speaking to my mom. There have only been a few times before that moment that my mother has looked at me with pure devastation in her eyes. Sadly Amelia’s statement was true. “Home” would never be home again. That being said, those two arguments were really convincing to Amelia’s central
A good example of this was when the essay read, “We can’t be toddlers or teenagers forever, and there’s too much out there to experience to make me want to dwell too much in the past” (Allison, 2009, p. 28). This really woke something up in me after I read it. Yes, I along with other Freshmen might be scared to actually try and experience this new freedom that we have been thrust into. However, reading this sentence I feel almost ashamed that I’m not jumping at every opportunity to grow and change into the new person I want to be. This emotion was invoked in me by simply saying we can’t stay who we currently are forever. That wasn’t the only argument I found to be very convincing. As stated in the essay, “Maybe the house I lived in with my parents will never be home again” (Allison, 2009, p. 27). This one really opened my eyes, more so than this first example. At first I didn’t think this statement was true. To me home would always be home. However, I went home for a weekend while I was moved in early for volleyball preseason and accidentally called my dorm home, while speaking to my mom. There have only been a few times before that moment that my mother has looked at me with pure devastation in her eyes. Sadly Amelia’s statement was true. “Home” would never be home again. That being said, those two arguments were really convincing to Amelia’s central