The Vacation- Reflective

After reading "The Vacation" by Wendell Berry and having to present it in class, I had the opportunity to truly study the words within each line. And I found that the writer was to me not only desiring to preserve his vacation but to experience the world through a new perspective.

Many times we too desire to experience the world through different means, but it is difficult when we may not know how. One would think that going on a vacation you want to enjoy the scenery and everything that the trip has to offer, but being stuck behind a camera would in my opinion limit you. But this actually liberated the writer, liberated him to see the world in a totally different perspective, and actually recording it so he could watch it over and over. Now it makes sense because when we watches it over again, he could always picture himself walking around seeing those things.

I would imagine, him actually getting close ups and moving towards things that caught his attention, just as many of us would if we were walking around or even in a boat. But it is during his trip that he seeing the world in a different light. He knew that he would actually never be in the video, but he knew he had it so he could watch it over and over again.

Many times experiences in life that we go through we sometimes want to capture, not our response but the very thing that caused us to react, but we cant because we had no way to capture it. But on his vacation, he might not of reacted then, but when we goes to watch it, he will then be able to react the way he probably would have. In our lives today, we see in many perspectives because of the mindset, some because of economic status, ethnic background, social status and some just by personality. In seeing things through different perspectives we are able to open our minds to things that actually are there and are not there and in doing this we stretch ourselves to be open to the mosaic world that we live in.

This man took a different perspective in life, to capture and respond later, oppose to responding and trying to recall what happened. Capture life while we can and learn to respond later. Life is right in front of our eyes or should I say lens.

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