David Foster Wallace’s, “Kenyon Commencement” is a speech that pushespushes us to think in a different way. “Teaching you how to think” (356). Isis what he calls it. And it’s not him teaching you how to do math in your head or be able to see the reactions in a science experiment, but to turn the way you think into a better, positive way.
“One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration” (259). This is talking about how when we have one set daily routine with nothing fun ever happening, our lives become focused around the bored and angry, leaving us with all our bad emotions.
“Closed-mindedness that’s like an imprisonment so complete that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up” (357). HeHere he is talking about how, from each of our own points of view, we can’t see what others do. I learned from a young age that you should never judge someone based on something mean they say or do. Sometimes those mean things they say are just what they’ve heard from their parents and don’t realize that they’re bad. Or that’s what other people tell them, so they won’twant someone else to feel the way they do. Mean words and actions come from someone elses’else's meanness. But the kindness you can show someone can often help end their mean streak. I know because I used to be bullied, and then I became a bully at times. Not to my friends, but my family. But after someone treated me badly, they apologized and did something nice. That is the kind of people this world needs more of. There is always going to be evil. But like in the darkness, the good will shine through brighter.