What Role Does Poverty Of Choice Play In A Life Story

Every person has a story; an extensive background that is as unique to you as a finger print. A person may have a nonstop, busy life, or another may have a slower, simplified life. Many things can influence an individual’s choices and decisions, but nothing is as influential to defining someone’s character as the landscape that surrounds them. Whether or not a person decides to closely abide by way of life that they are exposed to their whole life, every decision that a person makes is in some way connected where they grow up. A person’s personality may have the potential to influence someone’s individuality, but it is the landscape of where you are from and the events that occur there that ultimately shape your character.
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Poverty of choice is defined as the lack of choices that a person encounter’s in their life due to certain circumstances. This depravity of choice can be the deciding factor that limits opportunities in some individuals. Even though there are cases where people overcome this obstacle, the overwhelming truth is that poverty of choice ruling limitations in a person’s life. There are many examples of real people that have had their life stories dictated by poverty of choice. One of these people are Colton Bryant. From the time he entered school, he was bullied for his learning disability. Other boys would repetitively yell “You’re a Retard!”(6) at him with no mercy causing Colton to grow up with very low self-esteem and the belief that we was not intelligent enough to excel in a higher education. Growing up in a small western town, Colton’s life was compose of a host of constraints that limited his options to explore his place in the world. The setting of the roughneck western town that he grew up in gave him few option for career paths. Colton found himself trying to make it as a rodeo cowboy, moving from town to town, sleeping in parking lots and on the side of the road, barely scraping by. His past working with father and their horse caused him to pursue these dreams but he found himself realizing how little he was succeeding in the rough life of rodeo. After he hung up his cowboy hat, he …show more content…
This ability is seen as essential to our survival because it allows for us to overcome obstacles and difficulties that try to limit our success as people. Even though we possess this ability to adapt, certain events have the ability to change the way we think about something or reevaluate our life completely. In contrast with this idea, Greider and Garkovich convey the idea that “when evens or technological innovations challenge the meanings of these landscapes, it is our conceptions of ourselves that change through a process of negotiating new symbols and meanings”. What these two authors are try to say is that as we face influential or challenging events, our conception of your place in the world at that given time is altered. In other words, our experiences cause us to interpret our lives