6/7 ARW Blogpost

We had a lecture from Paul Wadden on Hemingway and "the Old man and the sea" 

Lecture summary is in themind map 

What struck me the most from his lecture was the saying "Everyone is on the ocean"

We all have our difficulties, and fish to catch. Some fish may be little, others may be huge. The question he ended his lecture with; What was the biggest difficulty in your life? made me think, and after two days I have reached my conclusion. 

I believe that the biggest fish for me was not a sudden urge of event, but gradually is pulling at my string. It started when I came back to Japan. The fish has put me in trouble countless times, and even now I have not completely caught it yet. I may not be able to catch it until the end of my life. Sometimes is pulls strong, like my middle school years and first year in highschool. Other times, it stays gentle. I'm not having a hard time pulling it, and almost feel that I may be able to catch it very soon. I caught one of the smaller fishes attached to it the other day. If I am luck enough, I may be able to catch it during my time at ICU. The environment here permits it. The waters are calm, and the current is in favor of me instead of the fish. 

The fish, is the complexity I have against my ethnicity.