...In David Foster Wallace’s speech, “This is Water”, he talked about the importance of people being aware of the world around them instead of being self-centered and focused only on what impacts them. Wallace focused on the fact that people spend their life worrying about surviving and getting through the day, rather than actually living and enjoy everything that goes on around them. The fact that the video was showing the daily life of grownups was very interesting to me because it made it easier to relate to the words that were being spoken. All these events that were being shown in the video - the driving, the waiting in line, the boardness- made this video very relatable, hence, because they are events that go on in mostly everyone’s life....
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