When I read Bioregional Thinking there were just a few statements that really stood out to me that I would like to take notice to. One is the notion of "where one is is also to know who is one". yes, I agree that where we live affets sometimes how we act and the things we do, but I dont feel like our address can really change our persoality or who we are as induviduals! It could affect who we become occupationally, if you were to be born into a family trdition that your expected to carry out or even a certain religion can affect our education and career opportuities. Second statement is that we have "abandoned the notion of home". I see the point that the author is trying to make with this statement, but I dont agree with it. With the advancement of modern technology and worldly transportation, we are easily connected to people and places that we werent able to communicate so easily with before, which expands our world and opportunities. Often times this expansion causes people to move and not reside in the city where they grew up, but does that mean that we as a regional community we have disregrded the entire notion of home-life? I think that innately as human-beings, we want to feel like we belong and section off ourseles to a certain communtiy and we also want to have a safe place to live and raise a family. I have a hard time believing that the advancement of technology and expantion of the world has changed our primitive being that much.
"What am I supposed to do?" I believe that everyon has a passion and a purpose and that when you discover what that passion is, than you discover who you are! THAT is what youre supposed to do and should be one of your main goals in life; to discover that passion. Us Cornish students have been fortunate enough to kno ourselves and are lucky to have discovered our passions early which then allows us the time for us to make our passions into our careers! Others that are ot so fortunate end up getting into other professions and uncovering their true passions later in life, which inevitably turns their passions into more of a hobby. Lets all be thankful that we, as already becoming artists, will never have to settle for that.