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Due to his brothers death, he was forced to see what his life was really worth and where his priorities were and are. In this case he didn’t just loose his brother, but he lost his best friend. He claimes that he would do good to his brother by “being present,” after feeling like he’d missed so much of there past. Spiritually he had been living without a good sense of what was going on, just thinking about and recreating what had happened to his brother. He now knew that he needed to fins somthing more and rearange his life, so in honor of his brother he began to live in the present. Inorder to do so it involved being more aware of what is going on around you in your everyday life. Also he needed to stop responding to questions and start asking them. He realized that our mind was the thing that limited us the most, so he stoped leting his mind think on it’s own and now only positive thought come from it. In turn to all of this life has all new meaning and power to living here and now.
I think this man did a wonderful thing by rearanging his life after his brothers death. It showed how big of an impact and feature he really was in his life. To me it truly shows what lenghts this guy was willing to go to to make everything better for all, specially when his past life wasn’t so great, now that he knows what priorities are needed to be had it’s good for him that he’s now living in the present and has come to do what his brother did and would have wnated him to do. With all that said, what this man went through is an awful thing that has long lasting affect on a person, so in turn that should help him live in the present from here on out.
It’s great that the author could take a tragedy and make it into something that changed his life for the better. It’s hard for me to live in the present, especially at this point in life where everyone is asking “where are you going to college?” and “what are you going to do with your life?” It’s better to live in the moment rather than dwelling in the past or worrying about the future.
This is a good I beleive essay. It is amazing how this guy could turn his life around. He is a very down to earth guy and i like his ambition to make things right. You need to focus on the present and make things right.