Monday, November 23, 2015
Bewilderment and Certainty: The Broken Knife and The Heart of Iron 3
Bewilderment is the break of one’s daily pattern with the unforeseen. Bewilderment goes against all of the experience a person has and acts as a personal test. A test that measures how well a person can conquer the unknown. Certainty comes from all of the experience a person has, Edward Abbey’s experience with the bullhead ensured that he felt safe around the snake. Certainty is needed in our lives because it allows us to trust the world, without trust we wouldn’t be able to get anything done, because we’d always doubt the end result. Bewilderment is important because it’s fun. Finding a rattlesnake between your legs might not seem awesome at the time, but afterwards it definitely makes a good story. If everything was a pattern the world would be too boring. Let me give another example with the immortal and grand show that is Spongebob Squarepants. When Squidward has had enough torture and decides to venture out to Tentacle Acres (I googled it) he loves his new home, all of the people are like him and every day he does what he loves. But then tragedy strikes, and Squidward gets bored of living every day the same way, he misses Spongebob, he misses bewilderment. We need spongebob in our lives to keep it fresh, to introduce the unknown, to meet the unexpected. Without squarepants we would all be roundpants, never able to be content and fit in the flat chair of life. Oh and we need bewilderment too.
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Bewilderment is the strange and unfamiliar aspects in life. It's the unknowns and suprises that keeps ones world a mystery. Bewilderment keeps us on our toes, it keeps us curious, and it keeps us guessing. Edward Abbey perfectly describes his bewilderment moment by sharing his story about snakes in the essay The Serpents Paradise. The part of bewilderment comes In when the gopher snake he had kept for a while runs away and then later comes back with a mate. Abbey describes how he saw the two gopher snakes dancing, intertwining and separating. He is in awe and bewildered at the scene in front of his trailer, all he wants to do is get a closer look. Get close and study or watch with amazement as if in a trance. Bewilderment is a good thing in our lives for it brings excitement, curiosity, and it brings difference, it brings a different view into a world and forces us to get out of our comfortable lives and branch out. However, certainty is also good on our lives for it brings trust and comfort which balances out the crazy confusion of bewilderment.
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