One Day can Make the Difference

“You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you'll get to where you want.”

~ Naomi Osaka

    Most of the time during the exam I felt lost as though I was in a massive forest and did not know which way was out. The exam process started out tough for me because I was not sure how many different layers of assignments there were.

    Isolation forces you to find out what you value most. The Old Man And the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway demonstrates how isolation affected The Old Man while wrangling the giant fish. The Old Man has caught no fish for eighty-seven days and for a long time the old man had a young boy with him as an apprentice, but because of the old man’s luck the young boy’s parents made the boy leave and go to another boat. That young boy was the only constant contact the old man had with people while fishing. But when the boy left to go to another boat, a dark wave of isolationism overwhelmed the old man.

An easy text with tough themes

“Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams.“
~ Fennel Hudson

    Perseverance gets tough people through tough times. The Old Man and the Sea showed me the value of perseverance because I pushed through each page and found the deeper meaning of the words, while the old man was persevering in the fight against the fish. Reading The Old Man and the Sea taught me about perseverance in two ways. I knew that in order to truly comprehend the text I had to be dedicated to finding the deeper meaning. The more obvious way I learned about perseverance is the old man endured the fish pulling on him for four days, and how this relates to my life.