Libery Woman's Ride Poem

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Many individuals strive to be the best and thrive in this world inhabited by seven billion people, by taking control over their own destiny. However, success requires a sacrifice of personal desires and ambitions at times which not a lot amongst us are willing to give. It is sooner or later that the temporary reformation fails and their true self resurfaces where they are back at where they began. A lot of us are unwillingly left to deal and live with these unfortunate circumstances. The impact that these events leave upon us is very significant and sometimes temporary. The poem, "The tent delivery woman's ride" by Wilmer Mills, and my own experience explains that the significant events negatively effect an individual's ability to determine …show more content…

Everyone including her daughter think of her as being "tangled" , and she has been wanting to present herself as a role model for her. The birth of her daughter was a very significant event in her life which got her to go on a road of becoming a "sweeter person". However, it is always been a habit of her to run away from her problems than actually face them. As, one day when examining a butterfly, she sees "knotted patterning of lines" which reminds her of her own mother who had "tried to teach [her] once" how to knit " before [she] ran away". It is her "job to drive the truck around" but she only does it so she is able to escape from all of her problems. But she "like it just fine". Her certainty to commit to her daughter conflicts with her personality of always running away from her problems which makes her surrender to her own self and letting go of the control of changing her identity …show more content…

I come from a very career-oriented family where it is necessary for everyone to be able to stand on their own feet rather than depending on someone else. I was always very close with her and she has always motivated me to be successful in life. She had always given me a direction in life and answered all my problems with ease making my life very easy. She always wanted me to become an engineer and wanted to see me graduate from University of Calgary. It was recently though that she started to have some difficulties speaking and even move without any assistance. It was very hard for me to see her like that. But seeing her determination to be wanting to live to see me graduate, kept me working on my goals, also. Considering her old age, I knew she did not have much time left. So, one morning i decided to converse with her on what i would ever do without her? But as soon as i reached her room i realized that she had left me forever. I was in great shock and felt helpless and aimless in life for the first time. I was depended on her so much that when she left me i became ambition-less and to this day i struggle to find a passion or hobby that i feel i can excel in. It was her that kept me motivated in becoming an engineer and do good in school. But, without her, it is never the same, so, everyday i see myself slowly losing interest in

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