Finding Your Howl
This article titled Finding your Howl by Jonathon Flaum gets really deep with one of his stories about a Red Wolf. This wolf is rare and was raised in captivity. The rest of the story is about finding the right way out of this prison he was born into and learning to howl like normal wolf. The wolf runs off and takes advice from a crow and a deer. He trusts his natural instinct to eat the deer and run as fast as he can (the bird being a metaphor for flight). He abolishes the old way of being fed everyday at a certain time, and trusts his inner self to eat and eventually howls like a normal wolf. The moral of the story is to fight through your problems. If you’re stuck in a cage you can’t just break out of the cage but you have to fight through it and learn how to live without out it. Because until this point the cage was not only a prison but also his home. The wolf gave up his artificial life and found his own way to live like a natural wolf.
Flaum, Jonathon. "Finding Your Howl." Changethis.com. 8 Oct. 2008. Web. 16 Sept. 2011. <http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/51.01.YourHowl>.
My Favorite Quote
Abraham Lincoln once said "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." This speaks to me in a very deep and creative way. I heard this quote from my sister about a week before my parents were deciding on what television to get. When I found out they were about to go shopping for one I roused up a quick sales pitch for getting a 52-inch set, rather than anything smaller. My opening statement was the above quote from Abraham Lincoln. Being 14 at the time, I thought I was being very creative. I went on to say that this quote has so much meaning to it because, superficially, the better TV you have means the more fun you’ll have in life. Therefore, having more fun in life you wouldn’t need to worry as much about growing old and stockpiling all your money for the possibility of losing health insurance. Having a full and successful life is the only thing that’s important, therefore a large TV should be bought along with a loud stereo system.
This quote has more of an effect to me now than it did before. The way I look at it, the older you get in life the wiser you are. Abe Lincoln was an older wise man giving advice from what he learned throughout his years. We should pay very close attention to what he says because we aren’t as wise as he was at the time. The creative side to this meaning is that the “life in your years” part can mean anything. Some people think money is important so that’s what defines their life. Others think family and friends are what define their life. Even if to you “life” is defined by your cat’s Tinkerbelle and snowflake then as long as you have those that’s all that’s important. The amount of time you live has nothing to do happiness, as long as you lived a happy life, with what you define “life” as, then that’s all that is important.
Because of this quote I have had a completely different outlook on life for a while now. If I were to die tomorrow I wouldn’t want people to think I died too young. I would want them to think I had a great life. Childhood is one of the easiest times in life, high school is interesting and very fun, and college is a blast. But the older you get you not only gain new good aspects of life, but bad ones as well. So this quote is a way of looking at only the good things in life because if you’ve had a great life, that’s all that matters in the end.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Quote - And in the End, It's Not the Years in Your Life That Count. It's the Life in Your Years... on Quotations Book." Welcome to Quotations Book - The Home of Famous Quotes. Web. 16 Sept. 2011. <http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23744/>.
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