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”.