Knowing that you are always going to be yourself is scary . Knowing that you’ll always be yourself, can be nerve racking. But knowing that you can always expand and expand infinitely is fun as well, there will be parts of me that I have yet to discover. I have a fear of the unknown, I’m hesitant of trying new things but yet I try to push through eventually.
Sometimes you have to take the leap into the unknown let the abyss rise to your neck and try to survive. In We are the Animals, the unnamed protagonist father throws him into the river to teach him how to swim. His mother was mad at the father hitting him and telling the father to get him out, but he didn’t. As he slowly sank to the “bottom” he fought and fought his way back to the surface, and then he was a man. He faced the unknown unknowingly.
What I’ve have taken away from this book is the courage to do things that scare you for the better turn out of things. We really don’t know, or I really don’t know how my life will pan out if I keep following the crowd of expectations, people put in front of me. It ultimately up to me, to decide the life I want for myself and no one else, no matter how daunting it seems. It really is either sink or swim, and Id be damned to ever sink once again.