If you’ve ever listened to the reports of survivors of natural disasters, you’ll notice an eerily similar pattern emerge within their statements. Whether it be an earthquake, tsunami, typhoon, or hurricane, people always react the same. They never expected this. They never believe it would happen to them. They have no idea what do from here.
This is but one example of a resounding truth in our lives: you cannot control life. Sure, you are perfectly capable of creating plans and ambitions; but when destiny wills it, your life can and will be thrown in a direction to which you never could have anticipated. This doesn’t mean these abrupt changes are inherently evil. While natural disasters, shootings, and catastrophic events will without a doubt affect you and your family’s plans for the future, equally pleasing scenarios can affect you life just as much. Meeting a new friend, trying a new experience, marrying your soulmate, or having a child: each of these events can send you down a pathway which you couldn’t have foreseen. Husband and wife, Ed and Judy encounter this exact predicament themselves in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” when the birth of their child brings about many aspects for which they hadn’t accounted. Judy and Ed were regular parents. They wanted …show more content…
Though their intentions were pure when Christopher was born, Judy is no longer able to maintain the stress of managing his peculiarities. Ed and Judy’s relationship falls apart and after a particularly rough incident, Judy “cried and cried and cried [and] said [she] couldn’t take it anymore,”(Stephens, 2011, p.43). At that moment she made the decision to leave behind Ed and Christopher and move in with another man. This loving couple was driven to the point of an affair following the birth of their child. What was supposed to change their life for the better ended up creating a massive riff in an otherwise happy
This is but one example of a resounding truth in our lives: you cannot control life. Sure, you are perfectly capable of creating plans and ambitions; but when destiny wills it, your life can and will be thrown in a direction to which you never could have anticipated. This doesn’t mean these abrupt changes are inherently evil. While natural disasters, shootings, and catastrophic events will without a doubt affect you and your family’s plans for the future, equally pleasing scenarios can affect you life just as much. Meeting a new friend, trying a new experience, marrying your soulmate, or having a child: each of these events can send you down a pathway which you couldn’t have foreseen. Husband and wife, Ed and Judy encounter this exact predicament themselves in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” when the birth of their child brings about many aspects for which they hadn’t accounted. Judy and Ed were regular parents. They wanted …show more content…
Though their intentions were pure when Christopher was born, Judy is no longer able to maintain the stress of managing his peculiarities. Ed and Judy’s relationship falls apart and after a particularly rough incident, Judy “cried and cried and cried [and] said [she] couldn’t take it anymore,”(Stephens, 2011, p.43). At that moment she made the decision to leave behind Ed and Christopher and move in with another man. This loving couple was driven to the point of an affair following the birth of their child. What was supposed to change their life for the better ended up creating a massive riff in an otherwise happy