The Impact of Place A place shapes the way we experience the world simply because we act according to our environment and attempt to fit in. We are influenced by the place, it’s structure, and the people around us in our everyday lives and unconsciously adapt to our environment. To some extent, we have the ability to transcend place by changing our attitude, although, it is very limited and complicated. To be able to transcend place, you must physically move to a new place. Wherever the place may be you are living in, the people habituated there to some extent live and work the same way as you due to the formation of the place. It is impossible for someone to change the way their hometown or city is operated, so therefore we all adapt to it.
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We experience the world the same way as people around us do. The place you are habituated in becomes a routine where everyone views the same thing and does remotely the same thing. Obeying the places culture and manners makes people feel included and not excluded from the world around them. As humans, we notice what others are doing around us and start to mimic them by choice or just by practice without realizing. In the passage “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik, he becomes worried that his three year old daughter, Olivia, has an imaginary friend that is always “too busy” to play with her. He later begins to realize that Mr. Ravioli is just like an New York citizen and is too busy most of the time to do much of anything. He starts to “feel more sympathetic toward Mr.Ravioli” because it seems that everyone living in the city does the same as him. Mr. Ravioli “was just another New Yorker: fit, opinionated, and trying to break into show business”(159). Adam Gopnik’s realization of how everyone in New York is typically busy in their own lives shows how the place where one is habituated has a great impact on how all of the inhabiters live. We feel connected when we see people around us doing the same thing as we are, it becomes a routine to see familiar faces repeating their days the same way as yesterday.
People as a whole, do have the ability to change their perspective of the place they are living in. How we apply, retain, and understand things determines how we'll live our lives. Although, the ability to actually transcend a place by our attitudes is not as simple as it sounds. The place we live in will never change its function because it is built to work a certain way. People take their resources and make use to them. For example, colleges students at
We experience the world the same way as people around us do. The place you are habituated in becomes a routine where everyone views the same thing and does remotely the same thing. Obeying the places culture and manners makes people feel included and not excluded from the world around them. As humans, we notice what others are doing around us and start to mimic them by choice or just by practice without realizing. In the passage “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik, he becomes worried that his three year old daughter, Olivia, has an imaginary friend that is always “too busy” to play with her. He later begins to realize that Mr. Ravioli is just like an New York citizen and is too busy most of the time to do much of anything. He starts to “feel more sympathetic toward Mr.Ravioli” because it seems that everyone living in the city does the same as him. Mr. Ravioli “was just another New Yorker: fit, opinionated, and trying to break into show business”(159). Adam Gopnik’s realization of how everyone in New York is typically busy in their own lives shows how the place where one is habituated has a great impact on how all of the inhabiters live. We feel connected when we see people around us doing the same thing as we are, it becomes a routine to see familiar faces repeating their days the same way as yesterday.
People as a whole, do have the ability to change their perspective of the place they are living in. How we apply, retain, and understand things determines how we'll live our lives. Although, the ability to actually transcend a place by our attitudes is not as simple as it sounds. The place we live in will never change its function because it is built to work a certain way. People take their resources and make use to them. For example, colleges students at