BLOG ASSIGNMENT #3! "Wake up call"

1. Montag says, " We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" What does Montag consider to be “important” or “real?” When was the last time you were really bothered about something important and real? What was it and what did you do about it?

This topic hit home in a big way with me, and probably really does with many people. Montag is talking about the importance of value, and the value of skills and family and sentiment.

"we need to be really bothered every once in a while"

A wonderful example of this is death. When someone close to you dies, what if the first thing that you think of? Besides sadness, or tragedy (if it was one), is that normally a person will start to question. And question everything from religion, to predestination , the next person to die, and the effects this has had on everyone. And to think of how one person leaving can change your entire world, and how yet on the global, or even national scale, the deceased person is just one more statistic. 

For example, in 2007, a dear friend of mine, and many others passed away in a car accident. It was such a tragedy, and at his memorial, all of his friends were there. As i sat towards the back, linked with my best friend, puffy with watery eyes like myself, i just watched. I observed and soaked in every moment, everyone's faces. In this rough crowd of teenage boys, I saw the change, i saw the realization in their faces. Some delinquents, some druggies, some skaters, and most, not so established or fully satisfied with their lives thus far. I watched their faces change, as i felt myself change. It was a wake up call. That life is short, and precious. And i cannot speak for anyone else, but i felt that i now needed to take hold of life, take fun of life and embrace it, because now it was not fair that he could not, when he was a kid who lived life so much. i felt the obligation to live and love life for him now, because he would have lived it to the fullest if he were able to. I felt this was a wake up call. And that it was much needed.
Like what Montag was describing, people tend to become complacent, and take things for granted. So there needed to be something to do that for them. They needed to be snapped out of their trance, and remember what it is really all about.