Why Place Matters By Ted V. Mcclay And Ted V. Mcalister

Holding on to what makes us whole will eventually be the comfort we seek. Wilfred M. McClay and Ted V. McAlister wrote “Why Place Matters”. According to McClay and McAllister, many risks may come to us as individuals and to society when we lose our connection to physical space, an example would be a childhood home. Risks have the ability to range from minor to major. The possible risks would include losing one’s identity, losing communication with loved ones, we would communicate with on a daily basis, as well as forgetting the significant meaning to the memories. I believe having tangible objects can be an essential way to hold on to a memory. The possibilities have lead me to believe our connection, as human beings, to physical spaces is …show more content…
It was a massive transition of being in an environment which helped me grow as a person and shaped me who I am. Now I am in a place I have no emotional ties other than school work. By this, I believe school puts a pause on my identity considering how I am not able to be in an environment where I have grown to recognize how to show my true self. Without realizing it, losing one selves identity can affect the people around that specific …show more content…
For instance, my friendship with Sandy has been growing for five years now this would be the first time in our years in school where we have been apart from each other. We have always had a friendship that grew from being face-to-face and we began knowing about each other in the same place, which was our school. Now that I attend the University of California, Riverside while she stayed back home at California State University, Los Angeles. We had to find a way to adjust learning about each other in a different place, now that we are fifty miles apart and have completely different schedules we had to adjust to our new places to learn about one another. Whenever we do get to see each other it would be a place out of the ordinary, therefore both our comfort zones with one another has changed. Now, I would say that having a face-to-face conversation with her would be more meaningful considering we now rely on texting each other or phone calls to know about each other’s day rather than in our senior Spanish classroom. McClay and McAllister supported this idea when they noted, “… a website can be a place and that digital relations can substitute for friends and family…” (138). This statement is used to make the reader understand that when we leave a place we were comfortable with people we love, we tend to use a digital version to replace our “comfort place”.