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~JUST KEEEEP SWIMMING, JUST KEEEEP SWIMMING~

This is truly all we can do...just keep on swimming through life and dodge whatever is coming your way. The famous, wise fish, Dory, perfectly lives by this mantra and is the prime example of following through her own advice. Not so many people can say that they just take life day by day or even follow others or their own advice like Dory does. I wanna say that I do, but that is never the case sometimes.

In "This is Water," the speech throws reality in everybody's face unexpectedly...kind of how life really is. You never now what is exactly going to hit you until it may be too late to do anything about it. Not only did this opened my eyes and changed my perspective on how I view my own life, but I realized that I should not focus on how crappy I think my life may be. Honestly, more than half of the time if not all the time, others definitely have it worst than me. "This is water" did a superb job with delivering the message of "life."  The use of rhetoric, moved the audience with the tone that was vocalized by the author which made it authentic. Along with background music that followed through with the linguistics, hearing this speech not only got me thinking and teary eyed, watching the video itself was a different matter. The video/images that was used were very realistic. This made it easy to help the audience relate to everyday life situations that we face.

It amazes me how much we as an individual focus on ourselves only, even though we consistently judge everyone. We may not even notice that we are doing this, but this is a constant battle we face on a daily basis rather it's judging ourselves or others. Life is all about judging and worrying about ourselves and we shouldn't stop according to "This is water." It is clear that we have to be mindful that others may be in the same boat, if not, they probably are already sinking to rock bottom.


As sad, happy, angry and lovely life may be, never stop caring about yourself and be lucky that you're even alive to witness all the terrible and wonderful crap life has to offer.

Lesson #2: Stick and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt... Before you go out and start judging everyone hard core, just stop and think~ what makes you superior than them? Why do they deserve to be judged and made fun of? Do you even know why they are the way they are? ~ be thankful for the opportunities that life has to offer. You never know what others are going through.