“The Allegory of the cave” written by a Greek philosopher Plato is a fictional dialogue between Plato’s brother Glaucon and his professor Socrates. In this dialogue Socrates describes some prisoners who have been living in an underground cave chained up all their live. They couldn’t talk neither see each other faces. All they could see was the wall in front of them on which appeared enormous shadows which they thought were real. They didn’t know that behind them was a fire and between the fire and the prisoners was a walkway through where people carried things and animals that were projected on their wall. After some time one of the prisoners is freed. He goes out and experiences the new world. Then he decides to go back to the cave and share his excitement with his fellow prisoners, but unfortunately for them he is just another enormous shadow and echo reflected on the wall.
In my opinion, if a person stays chained up and doesn't realize at the right moment when it is time to release from those chains, that will keep him away from experiencing the reality of what is happening around him. Plus, when going out there and seeing the world in a different way than he imagined, it would scare him away and make him go back from where he belonged.
A human being lives just one time on earth, that's why we don't have to be afraid of challenging ourselves when facing new experiences, meeting new people, making new friends and taking taught, but right choices at the time. An example would be the people living in my country, Moldova. As it is a small country with not so many opportunities, a lot of people who live there are very close minded and think that whatever they have there it is the best and there's nowhere better living than in Moldova. But I don't agree with them because there are a lot of young talented people like singers, dancers, painters etc..whose work is recognized just in Moldova, sometimes not even there because of the corruption and those who wish a better life have to face the reality and make some changes without being afraid of doing so. I think people need to make an effort and go around the world to learn new things, explore the living of a new country and get to know who they really are and what they are capable of.
When i was a child i used to believe that there are people living on the certain stars from the skies. All that believe came from my grandma, where I was spending my three months summer break every year, besides other holidays and anniversaries. After the horrible day when my beloved grandfather passed away, followed by one of my grandma's brother, my grandmother started inventing stories where people who don't live on earth anymore have a beautiful and peaceful life on the stars. She was always showing me the stars that formed together the shape of a bear that was their new house. Whenever I missed my grandfather, even if I wasn't at my grandmothers place, I would always look up at the sky and feel relieved. Later on, I found out that my grandma's stories were not real and i felt disappointed. It wasn't easy to get myself over that everything she told me was unreal.
Life is interesting and fun and we have to explore the best we can. If we'll stay just in one place and do just one thing all our life we will never find who we really are and what's the purpose of living on the earth. We'll be living in a dream that will never become real.
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