Blog #8
Two articles that I have viewed and believe students - that be high school or college, should read are, “It’s Not All About You” , from the writer David Brooks, published by The New York Times, as well as, “Confessions Of a Quit Addict”, by Barbara Graham. Where Brook’s talks about graduated college students, while Graham discusses her life as a quitting addict. In Graham’s article, “Confessions Of a Quit Addict”, she describes how she went about quitting and the journey of it. She uses references like; “it didn't matter that we weren't happy anywhere, because the rush of heading off into the unknown and starting over was more potent and trippy than anything we smoked” as well as “ the first time I felt the rush of quitting, the instant high of cutting loose, the biochemical buzz burning my bridges.” Graham say s that quitting is like a drug to her. At the end of her story she settles down, even though she misses “the...