Change for the Better

We have all in our lives been in a place that are new to us. Sometimes we feel excitement and joy, but a lot of times those feelings can be mixed with fear. The fear of the unknown is a common thing when change enters our lives. This last summer I had the chance to go to New York City with my family. Of course I was very exciting about this but I also had doubts about going. You have to understand that the biggest city that I had ever been to was San Francisco and I am easily stressed. When we arrived in the city it was already dark and we had to make our way across time square to the restraint we were planning on going to for dinner. As we walked through places that I had only seen in the movies and on TV my mind was blown. I was in a place that people dream their whole lives of coming to, hoping to make it to the great N.Y.C. and I was terrified. Being a Utah girl I had been taught my whole life how mean people were in New York. I saw things going on in the streets that made me blush.

          I can only imagine the fear that Stephen had as he entered a city much smaller than the one that I just talked about. This is a man who had never seen a stop light. Everything was new to him, and he was on his own, and had no clue where he was going. Compared to him I was well educated about the place that I went. All Stephen know about the city was that no one that he had ever known had every come home after they left. So why did he keep going? To me the question is easily answered. He was on a mission to find someone that he cared about. If he had been there for any other reason I am sure he would have thought of turning back the moment he got there, and if not then, when he was robbed by someone he thought he could trust. (Paton)

          This is the evidence that I use to prove my finding that love is more powerful then fear. In the book so many trails are given to the characters and our job as the reader I think is to try to see the different ways they handle the trails that come their way. We all as people are given a choice to take hard times in stride or to use them as am excuse to give up on the things we work for. If we let the things that hurt us or scare us, stop us from reaching our dreams, then we will never have the chance to overcome those hard ships.

          One example that I discovered over the break, that shows the choice to let fear and hate affect us, is a movie called Saving Mr. Banks  it is a new Disney movie that tells the story of the women who wrote Mary Poppins and Walt Disney trying to find a way to put her books into his movies. (Handcock) The women who writes Mary Poppins had a very hard childhood and the books are based on that. She is a very bitter women who has let he fear of her childhood take over what is left of her life. Walt Disney also led a hard boyhood. He despite this trail strives to make others happy.

          This is the message that I found in this book. Fear can be a powerful thing. It is something that we all must face, but if we do face it, and face it well we will be able to overcome and do great things in our lives.