During our lives we all search, some people search for money, some people search for love, and some people search for affirmation. What do you search for? Chris McCandless said this, while he was out searching for a new life, as described in the book about his journey: “We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living” (Into The Wild). It is unknown what Chris was searching for, but he was searching for something outside the path of his reality. Many people spend their lives chasing things that could change their lives such as happiness, affirmation, and an escape from reality, although most of the time those things do not change our lives at all.
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Some people go through life, just floating through situations and not really focusing on the effect of their decisions. In Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia, Leslie Burke struggles to find affirmation in school because she is an outcast. After befriending Jesse, they create a magical world called Terabithia (Paterson). Throughout the book, the author continues to discuss Leslie’s search for affirmation. Although she soon realizes that she does not need to always be happy, she only needs to be happy with her life as it is. “He nodded and smiled again. She smiled back. He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so.”(15). Leslie searches for affirmation from friends, while sometime people in today’s world search for affirmation through self-help books, such as Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project. Her book focuses on the steps that can be taken to assure happiness, while finding affirmation in life (Rubin). These two sources of affirmation can work in different ways for different people. But, overall, affirmation can be found in contentedness with a
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Some people go through life, just floating through situations and not really focusing on the effect of their decisions. In Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia, Leslie Burke struggles to find affirmation in school because she is an outcast. After befriending Jesse, they create a magical world called Terabithia (Paterson). Throughout the book, the author continues to discuss Leslie’s search for affirmation. Although she soon realizes that she does not need to always be happy, she only needs to be happy with her life as it is. “He nodded and smiled again. She smiled back. He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so.”(15). Leslie searches for affirmation from friends, while sometime people in today’s world search for affirmation through self-help books, such as Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project. Her book focuses on the steps that can be taken to assure happiness, while finding affirmation in life (Rubin). These two sources of affirmation can work in different ways for different people. But, overall, affirmation can be found in contentedness with a