A Response to Barbara Graham and David Brooks
A response to David Brooks “ It's Not About You” and Barbara Graham “Confessions of a Quit Addict”. It is obvious from the titles that these two articles are two completely different categories, and go into two different directions in what they are talking about in their writing. Graham describes her journey, while telling every detail of what she did, how she did it and sharing her emotional roller coaster giving a picture for you to truly understand what went on and how she went about her life. Barbara states “ because the rush of heading off into the unknown and starting over was more potent and trippy than anything we smoked and we just kept going” Here she is giving an example of why she loved to live on the edge and do stuff her way. Then she says “I want to live in the present for once, not in the future” graham is telling that she is over the lifestyle of “what's going to be - plans, plans, plans.” and wants to be able to settle down and live in the moment for o...
