“Life isn’t
about finding yourself. Life is about
creating yourself.”
By: George Bernard Shaw
I
chose this quote because I believe none of us truly know who we are when we
enter the world and we have to go through phases of life; some good and some
bad but I think that’s where you learn yourself the most and start to define
yourself by who you are and what you represent.
In the quote it looks like the author is trying to show the difference
between “finding” and “creating” or he’s trying to point out that these two
words don’t mean the same thing. This
quote makes a lot of sense to me because if you go through life trying to find
yourself then that means on some level you already know who you are and I
believe we change everyday and that shape’s us into creating our self.
Very
few of us take active part in creating ourselves. We often let outside forces like our peers,
our family, and other things affect us instead of taking advantage of the
control we have over who we are, and shaping ourselves into the kind of person
we want to be. When we were younger we
would try to “define” or “identify” ourselves through our friends or try to
create ourselves into what our parents want us to be. So during that whole time we are torn between
trying to identify and be like our peers and trying to create ourselves into
what our parents or family think is best for us. So during this whole time we are unable to
create ourselves as individuals. A lot
of us say we are still finding ourselves, even though no one actually knows how
the process of finding one’s self work and I believe on some level some of us
are scared of what we might find.
I
like how the author just puts the quote in simple terms and that it’s easy to
generalize your own opinion on what it means to you. The author uses the rhetorical term anaphora
in his quote because he repeats “life” in the beginning of both sentences to
show that this particular quote is referring to just life in general and that
this is the main topic to focus on. The
author also uses the rhetorical term epistrophe in this quote because he
repeats “yourself” at the end of both sentences to show how this quote is kind
of a self reflection about you and on the difference between finding and
creating yourself. He basically wants to
capture the reader’s attention and put the focus back on the reader so they can
think to themselves who am I?
Overall, this quote really caught my attention because
I actually believed that life was all about finding yourself until I read this
quote it really made me think further into what it was saying. I believe this quote says a lot without
actually having to because a lot of us go through the day to day stress of
trying to find out who we are without knowing that we are actually creating
ourselves at that very moment.
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