Horace Rheon Quote Analysis

When people experience misfortune in their lives, it can be difficult to see how to get past the hardship. No one wants to experience pain, and suffering. While that is understandable, it is an unfortunate truth, that we will all experience difficult times in our lives, no matter what status we may have or otherwise. Horace claims that through our struggling, we may discover strength in aspects of our lives that we had not been previously aware of. Horace is correct in this statement. People often realize that they have a talent at something, only when at their lowest that helps them to get through a low point in their lives. Some people realize they are good leaders after they and another group of people are thrown into a crisis and they are the first ones to step up and say “This is what we need to do”. Another example of this, is the saying that people who are really good to their friends and others, is usually due to the fact that they know what it is like to be lonely. People can discover that because they have been hurt before themselves, they can comfort others who are hurt …show more content…
This may be true, but Horace never stated that you will not discover your talents if you do not struggle. He simply said that experiencing adversity tends to allow people to discover talents that they may have not know about if they were doing well. People can also discover talents during a prosperous moment of their lives, but sometimes you can only realize what you are capable of during a time of crisis. The person that does not panic when another person’s life is in danger and calls 911 as soon as possible and does exactly what is told of them has the talent of staying calm in dangerous situations. This is an important talent to have, and may have saved their, or another person’s life, but they would have never known they had that talent if they were not put in a dangerous