Why am I here? Why am I sitting here in a library, attempting to put my time towards this essay? Why did I work hard in high school so I could make it to a new level? Why am I working hard now to make it to an even higher level? Surprisingly enough Plato 's 500 year old allegory holds the answer and sets up the perfect metaphor for those previous questions. This is because in Plato’s Allegory “The Cave”, the things that are said throughout the allegory, hold a deeper meaning than how the are initially represented. The most important items in the story are the darkness, the sunlight, and the chains. The sunlight represents enlightenment of the mind, understanding, and knowledge. While the darkness represents ignorance, lacking of knowledge,
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Whether you believe it or not, we in many aspects have been in the cave. It 's our duty to make it to the light. I myself started in the dark, and for a large period of my life that’s where I stayed. The question that those ask the most about the darkness isn’t what it is, but how to get out of it. Each and everyone of us have our own unique way of getting out the darkness and making it into the light. Each and everyone of us have our own unique way of breaking the chains. It doesn’t matter how you do it, but as long as you do it. The dark for me was, holding ignorance at a young age. I refused and simply did not understand anything outside of the Bronx for a long time, but my mother refused to allow the chains to be held. Instead she slowly introduced me to the light after noticing I was staying in the dark. Whether it had been skipping classes or not doing homework, I was staying in the dark. My mother one day decided that she would not have a son that stayed in the dark. She wanted me to be the first in our family to make it to college. My mother would drive me around the richest neighborhood and describe to me the importance of the light and the rewards it holds after enough dedication and ambition. After years of observing me in school, random visits to my classes, tutoring, and heavy communication with my teachers, my mother finally led me to the light. Concordia …show more content…
Personally, a whole world is opened. Opportunities that have never been attempted or even known are blown wide open in front of you and you can take it. Your life from all aspects, is now seen in a different point of view. For myself, I can grasp that truly anything that I want in life, I can achieve and build it here. I can have a degree and finally get a career that I love. When the chains are broken, you no longer stay in one place, you want to experience every aspect of the world and receive light from each of those aspects. When the chain is broken you understand that your financial growth is unlimited and that you can make it out the gutter. When the chain is broken you want to break the chains of others, and give them the feeling of endless possibility and hope. When the chain is broken the world you live in doesn 't become bigger in size, but bigger in your mind. When the chain is broken so is the ignorance and misunderstanding, and that will allow you to go as far as your mind allows you.
In conclusion, the goal of everyone in this world should be to break the chains and make it to the light. It is sad to see than most have not, and it is hopeful to see those who try, but we should always try to break the chain. Though it may be hard breaking the chain, the opportunities and reward only stop where you stop trying. The darkness and is not a place of permanence but a place that 's only purpose is to be escaped. The light is the
Whether you believe it or not, we in many aspects have been in the cave. It 's our duty to make it to the light. I myself started in the dark, and for a large period of my life that’s where I stayed. The question that those ask the most about the darkness isn’t what it is, but how to get out of it. Each and everyone of us have our own unique way of getting out the darkness and making it into the light. Each and everyone of us have our own unique way of breaking the chains. It doesn’t matter how you do it, but as long as you do it. The dark for me was, holding ignorance at a young age. I refused and simply did not understand anything outside of the Bronx for a long time, but my mother refused to allow the chains to be held. Instead she slowly introduced me to the light after noticing I was staying in the dark. Whether it had been skipping classes or not doing homework, I was staying in the dark. My mother one day decided that she would not have a son that stayed in the dark. She wanted me to be the first in our family to make it to college. My mother would drive me around the richest neighborhood and describe to me the importance of the light and the rewards it holds after enough dedication and ambition. After years of observing me in school, random visits to my classes, tutoring, and heavy communication with my teachers, my mother finally led me to the light. Concordia …show more content…
Personally, a whole world is opened. Opportunities that have never been attempted or even known are blown wide open in front of you and you can take it. Your life from all aspects, is now seen in a different point of view. For myself, I can grasp that truly anything that I want in life, I can achieve and build it here. I can have a degree and finally get a career that I love. When the chains are broken, you no longer stay in one place, you want to experience every aspect of the world and receive light from each of those aspects. When the chain is broken you understand that your financial growth is unlimited and that you can make it out the gutter. When the chain is broken you want to break the chains of others, and give them the feeling of endless possibility and hope. When the chain is broken the world you live in doesn 't become bigger in size, but bigger in your mind. When the chain is broken so is the ignorance and misunderstanding, and that will allow you to go as far as your mind allows you.
In conclusion, the goal of everyone in this world should be to break the chains and make it to the light. It is sad to see than most have not, and it is hopeful to see those who try, but we should always try to break the chain. Though it may be hard breaking the chain, the opportunities and reward only stop where you stop trying. The darkness and is not a place of permanence but a place that 's only purpose is to be escaped. The light is the