How wonder can lead people to success
Created By Jonathan Raclin
A high school student suffers a lot of stress and responsibilities from school. Success comes with organization and comfortability are crucial to have. Students, every day or week should
dally amongst each other, and themselves, am I placing myself in a position to succeed? For myself, I recently asked myself that question and replied with negative comments because my workspace set up at home is inconvenient and uncomfortable. I came up with a way to fix this issue, which is to buy a new working desk. I then was able to asses that something so simple as a desk could affect my disposition, my organization, and most importantly my grades. I also took away that a new study area would lead to more productive working, which in turn would lead to a better understanding of the material I was learning. Through my better understanding, my grades would improve because of the increase of knowledge that I was able to allow myself to gain. In the novel
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, the main character John pays more than $60,000 to climb Mount Everest. While on the mountain, the viewers on the bottom of the mountain witnessed the weather building up on the mountain and started to ask questions as if the climbers were becoming
scant. The viewers asked questions like "... had climbers on the upper mountain not heeded the signs" (Krakauer 8). The viewers on the bottom of the mountain asked questions just like me, so they could better inform their selves to succeed. It is also important to ask your self-simple questions because not only can you better inform your person for the future, but you can lead yourselves or others into new experiences.
By asking ourselves questions we not only can better inform our selves to succeed but we can gain advantages that lead to new experiences. I keep that thought in my head a lot when I am about to travel so that I can better inform myself to prepare for different kinds of travel. If I were to go on a summer trip to try and visit the orangutans on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, I would ask myself what kinds of transportation I was going to use so I could better inform myself of what to bring or even what to wear. I might have to bring a machete to
hewn through the ground brush. Ask these questions I was able to travel to new places fully prepared, and ready to use all my five senses to understand and remember the moment. In,
Into Thin Air, the author states that "... for more than a decade it remained an ambition" (Krakauer 23). Krakauer shows a great example of what can happen when you don't ask your self-question. If the author would have asked himself if he could do it, and if he motivated himself to go, a decade would not have had to pass. Just like in the movie, The Martian, Mark Watney questions himself with
accretion but waits to do so. Another example of how questioning is so important, and how something as simple as asking yourself if you could do it, could lead to brand new and excited experiences maybe even joined with orangutans.
Not only do we need to experience and live in a timely manner but we need to preserve the earth for future generations. There are questions we can ask today that could lead to discoveries which would benefit the planet. Improvements are necessary for air quality, safety, and defense, as well as, population control. Asking ourselves is this good for the environment, would be a life changer because most people thinking that question would respond with no, no it is not, which therefore take another poisonous fume producing toy or object to rest. Our earth is being poisoned by our mere presence and will not survive for too much longer if we don't start asking yourself guiding questions. Another area of concern would be safety and defense against and with other nations. The U.S. has had a conflict with North Korea for example, and it is critical that us citizens of the U.S. to ask ourselves could this start a deadly battle. Nuclear warfare is not off the table, so it is crucial for the U.S. to remain bonded with other threatening nations. Population control is also another area of concern because the birth rate vs. the death rate is very unequal. At one point in time, there will be too many people on this earth, and natural causes with start to take place. If scientists or mathematicians don't find proof, and solutions to population growth, the earth will be taken other entirely by humans.
This open door represents an opportunity for someone, something to walk, nigh, or move through. But why? Why is because there is opportunity that you could become wiser, more mature, or even gain an experience from. Humans view this "opportunity" as wonder. Humans see this door through wonder and through question alike; what is on the other side, or what would happen
Glossary
1) Dally
Definition = To talk or converse lightly
Affixes and roots = none
In Text = "Four hundred feet above, where the summit was still washed in bright sunlight under and immaculate cobalt sky, my compadres dallied to memorize their arrival at the apex of the planet..." (Krakauer 11).
2) Nigh
Definition = To go, come, or draw near to (a person, place, etc.); to approach closely
Affixes and roots = none
In Text = " None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh" (Krakauer 11).
3) Accretion
Definition = The process of growing by organic enlargement
Affixes and roots = tion
In Text = "The actual particulars of the event are unclear obscured by the accretion of myth" (Krakauer 15).
4) Hewn
Definition = to strike, with a cutting weapon.
Affixes and roots = none
In Text = "Its proportions are too chunky, too broad of beam, to cruelly hewn" (Krakauer 17).
5) Scant
Definition = existing or available in inadequate or barely sufficient amount, quantity, or degree.
Affixes = none
In Text = "Their knowledge of the deadly effects of extreme altitude was scant and their equipment was pathetically inadequate by modern standards" (Krakauer 17).
Bibliography
"dally, v." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/46982. Accessed 16 November 2018.
"nigh, v." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/126957. Accessed 16 November 2018.
"hew, v." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/86561. Accessed 16 November 2018.
"accretion, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/1239. Accessed 16 November 2018.
"scant, adj. and adv." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/171918. Accessed 16 November 2018.
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Krakauer, John, Into Thin Air, Villard, 1997, novel
