The most interesting thing we talked about in class the other day over the articles is the connections between the two articles “The epidemic of worry”, and “Confessions of a quit addict. The both of these articles have some similarities, in Brooks he talks about the worrying of the election, how people was stressing over who was gonna win the election. In paragraph 14 sentence two he says, " If the next president starts enacting a slew of actual policies, than at least we can argue about concrete plans, rather than vague apocalyptic moods." In Graham's article she was telling us how she quits everything in life so basically she stresses over her life trying to match a dream that doesn’t really exist in real life. In paragraph 6 sentence one she said, "It had taken thousands of miles and one child for me to understand that the quitting I took for freedom was as much of a trap as the social conventions we were trying to escape." She needed to give a better life for her son and herself, she had to stop running away from the real picture and quitting all the hard obstacles in her life. Abstract is something existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. Concrete is something that is existing in a material or physical form so it's not abstract. Brooks article is abstract because it warns you against dangers. There’s good and bad, the good tries to tell you the dangers you're getting into, and the bad is the self destructive thoughts. Concrete is something that is existing in a material or physical form so it's not abstract. Graham's article is a bit concrete everything in her life she tries to get a physical thought of. How she quits college and moves forward in her life, jumping from one place to another she can’t figure out what place she wants to stay at, she's tired of being a quit addict but she also knows she will always stay a quit addict. Discussing these two articles in class helped me visualize both of them more than I did before, I didn’t really understand brooks article. After comparing these two together I got a better understanding on what they was talking about. We discussed the classification pattern for brooks article, it’s breaking down big topics into smaller categories. The bad is brooks we said is, “self-destructive thoughts, educated/affluent, well it’s too many choices and the meaning of life”.

In Brooks article  “The Epidemic of Worry”, he brings up some very interesting points over being worried and having anxiety. Anxiety is something that worries you or you feel a bit of nervousness. Worrying is what causes your anxiety.  He says “Worry is circular”, because we stress over the little things. When you think someone is following you, you get a bit anxious and very worried about the situation so you tend to pace a little faster to your car.  I’m a person that won’t go out at night time by myself I get bad anxiety thinking someone is gonna rob me or even kidnap me you never know with crazy people these days. I didn’t even go out for Halloween because I was super stressed out that a clown might pop out. When I go running during the day, I look behind me constantly I get a bad feeling someone is following me and they say you always follow your gut. These types of situations is what causes people's anxiety attacks. Another point he said “ Anxiety is coursing through American society.” This is very true, we stress ourselves so bad we tend to not focus on the positive outlook of things. Sometimes when stress myself out to the max I tend to put myself in a bad place, I literally will cry over the stupidest things ever.

    The two “flavors” of worrying in America one is Educated- class anxiety is really a overload of different options without a purpose. Many students have anxiety over a test, they can study for weeks before the test but still be worried about passing it. I try to study at least an hour a day over notes we take in class so I can know the material. The second one is affluent people basically when you are very wealthy but you have a fear of missing out on things.  Most of these people try to buy their happiness. I’m not the person that judges anybody, but I wouldn’t like someone that tries to buy their friendship I couldn’t be with someone that does that. My family sometimes tries to buy their way in my life, but I instantly say no. I don’t like when people pay for anything for me, I appreciate the curiosity but I like to be independent and try to do it myself. I come from a family where I was extremely spoiled, I mean I still am but I feel like a terrible person when my parents buy everything for me I feel like a hopeless person.