Understanding people: "It is always those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Title: Understanding people: "It is always those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Category: /Literature/Creative Writing
Details: Words: 278 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Understanding people: "It is always those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Category: /Literature/Creative Writing
Details: Words: 278 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE
The pupose of this essay was to explore the question of why people are so hard to understand. The quote came from the book A RIVER RUNS THROUGH ITby NORMAN McCLAIN .
"It is always those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
After reading this quote over and over, I finally have an idea of what it means. The word elude, as found in Webster's New World Dictionary, means …showed first 75 words of 278 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 278 total…protects them from ridicule. This is not an easy task to undertake, as humans fear humiliation.
From this quote I have learned that we should take time to understand people. Even if they portray themselves as being perfectly fine with no problems, chances are something they do not want to share is bothering them. Most importantly, we should also take time to comprehend ourselves. We may need the most help and not even know it.
