Ways Of Moving Analysis

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There are many things in life that help people move along. Whether it’s love or greed or happiness, something turns the wheels for each and every one of us and oils them up when we feel rusty. People start off moving, continuously reaching for something far off or is it so close you can almost touch it? In the beginning, waking moments of life, everyone moves forward, simply because they can. They move for the sole purpose of moving. As we get older and more bitter and realistic, we have to find many reasons to keep moving. Moving is no longer a reason to continue, simply because going through the motions is no longer interesting. People strive for plenty of things, tangible and not, but some people simply stop, like an ungreased ferris wheel, forgotten in the rush of now, and today, and keep going. …show more content…

You walk, you breathe, and that’s enough for people. But the older we get, the more the rose-colored glasses crack, and move beyond repair; the ugly truth rears its head as it always has. Before this happened for me, I believed in many things. I believed in the goodness of people, that they could be good, simply because. I believed that people loved, because it was the right thing to do. When I found my glasses, literally and figuratively smashed in 4th grade, I saw the world for what it was; a mess of intricate stories and ideas; and people were no longer simple. While this event may have been jarring and unbearable for some, I pressed forward, because there had to be something brighter, waiting. Although I’ve grown, I am still young and I have yet to find my purpose, as many much older than I haven’t as

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