After reading the section in the conclusion talking about becoming aware of both our power and our love, it made me think about the first time I started at Dominican University of California as a freshmen. I took related this to the statement "our first step in learning to walk on our own two feet" (129). I noticed how Kahane said that we need (129). I felt like this related to when I was a freshmen because I would always wonder why I would go to class and what are the benefits of it. The teachers I had mostly read off of slides that they presented at class. I thought about advantage and disadvantage of going to class. Since our lectures were already posted online, I felt like the disadvantage of going to class is that our lecture and basically our whole class is online. At that time I didn't see an advantage to going to class because I could have just learned the material on my own and also attendance did not count. This made me think of how Kahane said that we have simplistic and mistaken drives in our lives.
Moving on to this semester I thought about the second part of this passage when Kahane stated that "we must learn to live with the permanent reality, outside and within ourselves" (129). I related to this as how serious this school year means to me. This helped me realize what I should be doing in school as well as real life. This helped me realize that we need to be able to perform actions in our lives that help us in our lives externally and internally. This means that we need to be able to perform actions that help us gain something mentally and physically. For example, going to class is a way that helps us gain something mentally. This has helped me realize that I need to start being more serious in my life instead of joking around all the time. Reading this passage made me realize everything in life cannot always be turned into a joke or something fun. I found out in my life there is a need to be more serious than ever.
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