SQ response

“He used to say, “ Once you know what you’re doing, the only thing you need to think about is how to do it.” I believe that is deeply true.”

            This story was different. I think that its an original idea to create a post-modern world where mental health is being perfected, and I think the author captures what this world might be like quite well. My opinion on this world and the world we live in today is that everyone is a bizarre in their own sense. If people weren’t interested and passionate about bizarre things the whole world would be grey. The people that are interested in something out of the ordinary is what makes them sane.

            I find this quote intriguing because it manages to mention the what and how of living, but it doesn't mention the why. There is always a reason why someone does something. And if the why of the equation isn’t strong enough to that person then they will lose interest and stop doing what they are doing. To elaborate on this story, I don't know why people where failing this test, or what for that matter was even on the test. Most people are sane in a very unique way. The world is filled with millions of toys, gadgets, books, culture, music, and religion, that one person from one side of the world might say to a person from a different culture who listen’s to different types of music and reads different literature, and say “You are crazy”. However that person is doing may seem completely normal to them. It is what that person believes to be cool, true, or normal.

            In this story there is also the narrators motif of believing. The narrator talks a lot about belief. In the beginning the narrator says that she believes people need beliefs. What I find interesting about this is the connection that it has to the secretary running the world at the end of the story. The secretary is running a world that is basically empty, with most of the civilians in an asylum. She acts like running the world is easier than one might think, and I think that this connects to believing in something. I like to think that this is a metaphor for how everyone runs their own little world by believing in something that matters to them.