A Deathbed Lesson For Life Analysis

Advise should be taken with a grain of salt because someone’s advise doesn’t always fit your situation. Yet sometimes, advice doesn’t need to be taken with a grain of salt because it universally applies to everyone. Yolanda Nava was given universal advise by her mother as she describes in the article “A Deathbed Lesson for Life: It’s All in the Frijoles.” When Nava asked her mother what made her strong, her mother told her that it was all in the beans. Later, when she was making frijoles en la olla did she understand that her mother meant by putting in the work to eliminate undesirable beans, she “was…exacting [the same] attention she paid to eliminating character flaws and weaknesses in herself” (Nava). The advise I was given was also universal …show more content…
To me, they mean that I determine what I’m worth and I have the power to make my own decisions as well as the strength to not listen to the people that don’t believe in me. They are a reminder to look at myself and what I value and remember what I stand for. At the same time, these words speak to my insecurities of relying too heavily on other people’s opinions and letting the fear of other people’s opinions dictate my own actions. Every time I think back to Peggy Carter’s words, I try and use their meaning as inspiration to improve upon this insecurity and see it as a challenge to find room for …show more content…
In fact, the same message can be found through women’s soccer and every movie with an underdog. What makes these words special are their timing. When I watched the episode, I was having to deal with my AP Physics teacher. She was always telling my class that we were going to fail in college or asking what was wrong with us or why we asked stupid questions. It got to the point where it felt like I being told that I would be a failure almost everyday and overall, it was demoralizing and emotionally straining. To hear such negativity come from someone that was supposed to be preparing me for the future tell me this, it’s hard to take “in only the good and [reject] the bad” (Nava). I never fully believed her because I could never believe someone that cynical and I had more faith in myself than I did in her words. Hearing Peggy Carter’s words were in the fullest sense, a reminder that I was more than capable of ignoring these negative words and could deal with whatever challenges I would face in the