Influential figure, David Foster Wallace
Everyday life is attributable to the always-profound concepts, directly or indirectly, along the course of life. This means that an individual’s life can infinitely stem towards any given direction with the ability of making the right path choice every time lying on own hands. Life is prejudiced with people of different backgrounds steering us towards fair or adverse outcome. I have not known David Wallace, but his writing has been so influential to me. His passion and philosophy for life is exceptionally portrayal in his writing. Among his most influential writing is his speech to the graduating class at Keynon in 2005. Upon reading this speech, I changed my perception towards life.
David has a different view of life, which most of us lack. This is as evidenced in his precise speech where he gives different example to illustrate various phenomena. The manner in which he perceives life seems rather unrealistic, but a keen focus on the things he says shows what life is about. The way David Foster Wallace perceives about education is remarkable. Earlier, before the speech, education was meant to fill me up with knowledge, not to teach me how to think. However, David’s sensitivity on teaching how to think thus influenced my perception for education, and now, I am able to put it into use in influencing the manner in which I think and on the subject matter.
David fosters most significant referred concept that has made a sincere influence is the aptitude of making conscious choices on everyday thoughts. The immediate preconceptions of this aspect are those basing on David Foster Wallace observations and experiences and since he creates meaningful, personal choice, I have become more tolerant of peoples conceptions about differing ideas on choices. This has made me choose to lead an intelligent life. I admire his courage of standing up and making personal choices on the culture progress of the society and acknowledging of its existence. This marks his conscious point of irony and cynicism with sincere compassion. This is the essence of appreciating thought difference opening up a perfect thinking method for me. This helps in appreciating other people’s thoughts in an appropriate manner to avoid quick judgments basing on their prejudices.
David, through his writing, has influenced me not only to think, but also to control the way I think. In other words, he influenced me to choose wisely among my thoughts to get the utmost experience in life. In his speech, he says that learning the way to think also involves exercising some control over how, as well as what one thinks. I have tried this, and results, in most cases, have been brilliant. Most people just think, but luck the control to what they think; thus, they are a product of uncontrolled thinking that is not suitable in life. David has made my life make a u-turn through whatever I think.
