Something To Talk About...

At the beggining of chapter 5, there was a metaphor that I really liked. It is a parragraph long, yet it is very impressive so I'd really like to share it. It goes as follows "For instance moles and blackbirds do not eat each other, mate with each other, or compete with each other for living space. Even so, we must not treat them as completely insulated. They may compete for something, perhaps earthworms. This does not mean you will ever see a mole and a blackbird engaged in a tug of war over an earthworm; indeed a blackbird may never set his eyes on a mole in his life. But if you wiped out the population of moles, the effect of might be dramatic" (Page 66). I'd like to apply that to a story I just invented. There are three people in it. Paco, Juan, and Camila. Paco and Camila are good friends, and Juan and Camila are good friends, but Paco and Juan don't even know the other exists. One bad day, Paco had a heart attack and died. Everyone is sad, mainly Camila. Juan didn't know Paco existed, but he is so affected by Camila's sudden sad and depressed attitude that he is kind of manipulated to being similar. His mood is now down, as well as Camila's, for someone he didn't even know. Both cases, the blaackbirds and worms metaphor and mine are similar. It is easy to let ourselves be carried by what we have around us. T.V. is almost always a bad influenze, some radio programs are as well, music, videogames and other people sometimes make us change our mood according to theirs. I don't know if this is bad or not, and I kind of can relate it to the book in the sense that this is a selfish act, because we unconscuosly make others feels as bad and sad as we are. I guess we just need to stop letting ourselves be carried by other's feelings and moods.