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Thinking Things Over - Online Term Paper

Thinking Things Over

�Life is a game that must be played.� How do you win at this so-called game of life? You don�t, there is no winner or loser in this game of life. Its either you live or you die without fully living. To fully live one must overcome the opponents within themselves. The biggest opponent to your-self is the one inside your head. Over-thinking too much or reflection at the wrong moment can lead to your downfall. Heinrich von Kleist believes that �reflection, or thinking something over, finds its proper moment after rather than before an act.� His opinion stems from the premise that life is essentially a contest with fate. Holding this view sets up everything and every situation as a win/lose ...

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dangerous type of situation�an accident for example, where quick thinking and/or quick action is a must. If, say, you are driving down the freeway and someone swerves into your lane or a child runs into the path of your car, it would be insanity at best to ponder what course of action to take or to think, �Now what did the driving manual say to do when this happens?� From a personal experience, in which I was driving and my brakes weren�t working as I was coming up to a stop sign where there was a person crossing the street. At that very moment I had to act quickly, without thinking I drove the car up onto someone�s front yard and into a tree instead of into another human being. In that moment, I didn�t have time to think what my possible options where, I just had to act. The time to reflect would be after this incident as Heinrich von Kleist agrees.

In contrast to his assertion, there are times when you should, as a necessity, think about something before you go into it ...

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Added: 7/7/2014 05:12:03 PM
Submitted By: ecolby2
Category: English
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