“It seems if in the process of growing up, we lose the ability to wonder about the world"
This was a quote in the book. the quote was stated when Sophie was reading her philosophy letters. I personally agree with the quote. After reading the first few chapters of the book, it really got me thinking about how I had treated life.
I agree on what the book said, when we were born ed, as a child, we take interest and excitement into whatever we see. Mainly because we met these things for our very first time and our curiosity sometimes leads us to being uncontrollable, making us pay so much or too much attention into that particular thing. As we grow up though, we would slowly lose the appreciation into things we have seem and met before. The example in the book, was a young baby meeting a dog, every time it sees one it would act and cry out 'bark'. But as we got older, we no longer do that or sometimes even we might just pass by a dog without even noticing it it being there.
Therefore there isn't really an agreement or disagreement to this quote, the whole point of this quote was to get us thinking. Are we the kind of people who are in that position, which we lost interest in wondering about the world as we got older.
Personally speaking about myself, I think that the quote totally describes my situation of life. I at this point of life never will start thinking of why are we existing or why does dogs bark. There seems to be no more imagination in my mind. Does that really mean that we totally lost the wonders of life? No I don't think so, it's just that we need someone to guide us and tell us that life is not always ordinary and boring.
Wilson Chan
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I also get the feeling that this book is causing me to think about how I treat life a lot more than I used to. I greatly agree that babies have large interest in almost everything as they are unfamiliar with situations like dogs barking. Why do they bark? Questions like these come into their minds causing them to wonder. But as you correctly said, as we grow up, we tend to pass by without even noticing the dog being there. Your last point about needing a person to guide can be a solution, but what if we are the type of person that does not care at all? We would not care about needing a guide, therefore does that mean we have lost the ability to wonder? Or is that guide the person to enlighten us and make us think and not be the one that does not care about life?
I guess great minds think alike, since I think have the feeling that this book is also causing me to think about how I treat life a lot more than I used to before as well. I totally agree that people with at a young age especially babies and children, have lots of questions in their minds and wonder alot. However, in my opinion, even as we grow older I think that we still wonder and have questions in our minds. The questions may vary hugely from the questions you had when you were young but they are still questions. As for your last point that you made, I think that you yourself can be your only guide, as the others can only be there to support you not guide you.
I agree to you as in as we grow up we spealise in every area. We do not think about the funementals any more such as the only thing to do with dogs is to bark. we may think of a dog as mans best friend, an agitator. we forget about the basics of the dog.
i agree with most of what you are saying and that this book is just a tool to get us thinking again about this world which we have gotten use to living in.
In some extent i agree with you. but the thing is.. when did we ever thot about "why do we live" before? we were too young to establish this statement and did we ever asked adults about this when we were little? But a do agree that this book is just telling us to think again about why we are here and why do we live on earth ;)
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