“I wanted to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life” -Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is a burden.
Freedom is not always evident in day to day life until you have to face a huge decision. Soren Kierkegaard explains it through a situation where someone's stands on the edge of a cliff and decides whether or not to jump. To explain it even further he says, “life is a series of choices and that these choices bring meaning (or not) to our life” (Case). Kierkegaard is talking about the baggage that people carry with them and how their actions have brought them to the heaviness on their shoulders. Freedom is a burden that contributes to choices we make as humanity. The choices derive from free will which has an overbearing and dizzy effect …show more content…
Caroline Sacks was accepted into Brown University and she felt like she belonged. When she got accepted she had the grades, the extra curriculars, and the passion for science. She did not have a good start in her classes and started to feel the effects of relative deprivation. She would feel that she was lagging because she was put into a University and started out with decent grades unlike in High School where she was a straight A student. Caroline Sacks had the freedom to choose which fish to be. On one hand it was big fish in the little pond or small fish in the big pond. She chose Brown because according to society Brown has a better education but not the better fit. Freedom to choose is important but going back to Kierkegaard’s idea of every action being a choice leads directly into this real world …show more content…
Freedom is constricted by other people or the connections made. During her study she learned that “we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly” ( TedTalk). This idea refutes Jean-Paul Sartre whereas he believes that “they have no other way of putting up with their misery than to think: circumstances have been against me, I deserve a much better life than the one I have.” (Case). Sartre believes that people will always complain and never get over their own flaws unlike Brene Brown where she believes flaws can be accepted. Sartre also makes a good point when he says “We have no other purpose than the one we set ourselves” (Case). Sartre’s argument is everyone’s purpose is already set by themselves and cannot be changed by trying to accept vulnerability. The freedom this leads people to think they have is too much of a burden to
Freedom is a burden.
Freedom is not always evident in day to day life until you have to face a huge decision. Soren Kierkegaard explains it through a situation where someone's stands on the edge of a cliff and decides whether or not to jump. To explain it even further he says, “life is a series of choices and that these choices bring meaning (or not) to our life” (Case). Kierkegaard is talking about the baggage that people carry with them and how their actions have brought them to the heaviness on their shoulders. Freedom is a burden that contributes to choices we make as humanity. The choices derive from free will which has an overbearing and dizzy effect …show more content…
Caroline Sacks was accepted into Brown University and she felt like she belonged. When she got accepted she had the grades, the extra curriculars, and the passion for science. She did not have a good start in her classes and started to feel the effects of relative deprivation. She would feel that she was lagging because she was put into a University and started out with decent grades unlike in High School where she was a straight A student. Caroline Sacks had the freedom to choose which fish to be. On one hand it was big fish in the little pond or small fish in the big pond. She chose Brown because according to society Brown has a better education but not the better fit. Freedom to choose is important but going back to Kierkegaard’s idea of every action being a choice leads directly into this real world …show more content…
Freedom is constricted by other people or the connections made. During her study she learned that “we can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly” ( TedTalk). This idea refutes Jean-Paul Sartre whereas he believes that “they have no other way of putting up with their misery than to think: circumstances have been against me, I deserve a much better life than the one I have.” (Case). Sartre believes that people will always complain and never get over their own flaws unlike Brene Brown where she believes flaws can be accepted. Sartre also makes a good point when he says “We have no other purpose than the one we set ourselves” (Case). Sartre’s argument is everyone’s purpose is already set by themselves and cannot be changed by trying to accept vulnerability. The freedom this leads people to think they have is too much of a burden to