Embracing Change: A Journey from McDonalds to Self-Discovery

Imagine, you’re working in McDonalds, you spend a majority of your life serving others and you forget about yourself. It’s been five years and you just now realize that this isn’t how you want to live your life anymore. You have always gotten pleasure out of serving and helping others, until one morning you woke up and felt completely different about the way you’re living. It’s time to change that, it’s never too late to change. This is one of the many sayings that are easier said than done. The one thing most people lack in order to accomplish this goal is the lack of motivation.
Many people make the decision to change their lives because they don’t feel as though they are living to their fullest potential. Most people change their lives because either they have learned a lot throughout the years or they have gotten tired of the same old thing day in and day out, kinda like how Arnold feels in the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. In the book we see it again when Arnold talks about not living to your fullest potential because in one of the chapters he talks about how he’s poor and
The world is going to continue to pass them by with or without them. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold has two places where there are quotes that support this. He said, “It’s not like anybody’s going to notice if you go away” (15). This goes with setbacks because if you go away no one's going to notice, but if you change yourself and make a reappearance, you’re bound to be seen by more people. Another one is, “You can’t hide in your house forever. You’ll turn into some kind of troll or something” (18). Hiding in your house is going to cause everything to go by you in the blink of an eye and you’re not gonna have a clue what is going