I chose an essay written by G.K. Chesterton on mans impulses and turning mundane, comical acts into exciting events that make life not so mundane. The main piece from the essay that I take away is when he talks about how chasing a hat in the wind is just as trivial as having sex. “And the most comic things of all are exactly the things that are most worth doing—such as making love. A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a wife.” A quote from the essay talking about how even the most comical of tasks are important. Turing the mundane everyday task into an exciting adventure will make your life better. Another example from the text is when he mentions to his friend that instead of thinking that the drawer is stuck everyday, he should turn the struggle of opening the drawer into an intense struggle with an equally intense force keeping the drawer from opening. Thus creating a sense of adventure out of a seemingly mundane and irritating task. The reason why I’m choosing this essay is because I am going to use the ideas presented by Chesterton to say that you should get off the internet and create adventure out of the mundanes of life and create adventure not sit on the computer looking for meaning. The reason that I think that this essay is acceptable and credible is for the fact that it came of the electric typewriter website that was provided and its also off a website names Quotidiana which is a public domain website that hosts 420 public domain essays all of which are classic essays. Also the website ends in .org, meaning that the website is a non-profit (referenced from our library visit), so why would they support lying when they’re hosting public domain essays? Ways that I could relate this to my other sources are simple, the essay in wish to use is commenting on the purpose of life when it comes to simple tasks, relating directly to Wasick’s essay “My crowd experiment” because Wasick talks about being so bored and lazy that he create a club specially for people who are too lazy and bored to do anything meaningful. Also applies to Anderson’s essay, I feel like maybe if people could slow down and make adventures out of their distractions then maybe more creativity would come of them. Learning how to embrace the distraction will be a main focus for my essay.
I think GK Chesterton is a fantastic choice. I think it will be interesting to read an essay that connects an essay that was published around 100 years ago to essays that discuss digital technology. Would you mind linking to the essay? Thanks, and I look forward to reading!