Graham VS. Brooks

Graham's article "Confessions of a Quit Addict" is about her quitting a bunch of things that doesn't "arouse her passion". She quit college then she pretty much quit her life and left everything back at home her family, friends, quit job, sold apartment and everything to set on an adventure with her boyfriend, Brian. They left everything for this journey to find freedom when in the end she wasn't happy with how her life was going. As soon as she had her son it opened up her eyes and she was tired of living from one place to the next and jumping from one job to the next when one got boring. After having Clay, their son she knew this wasn't the life for them. She wanted friends, family, and a place to call home for her and her son, but Brian wasn't on the same page he was go, go, go all the time that they ended up getting a divorce so with all this she became a writer and learned a lot from this failure journey. She learned that she likes having people to call family and people to call friends. She likes being around people. She learned that no matter what she does she doesn't have to run after change because change constantly finds her.

Brook's argument "It's Not About You" is about all the opportunities that this generation of high school and college students have. Brook's says the way the educational system works now leaves young people/adults struggling with the real world. These generations are getting babied more and more that when its time to grow up and enter adulthood we are left not knowing what to do. Back in the day there was a way of doing life and now these young adults have more freedom and have more opportunities to do whatever they want.

A way these two connect are in "It's Not About You" in his last sentence of the argument he says "The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself." connects to Graham's article when she says "My family, my home, close friendships, the natural world, and the worlds I create in my work constantly surprise me with their nourishment- a thick and complex root system I might never have know if I hadn't stopped cutting the ties that bind." These two connect because Graham finds out that she now has a son she has to take care of and she can't live in a world that's all about her anymore because she now has another human being to tend too. I actually gained a lot from the conversation that we had in class on Tuesday because I was very confused and unsure of what was going on with these articles and how they connected to each other and now I see how they do so and have a better understanding of the two.