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Argument for an Aphorism
Title: Argument for an Aphorism
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 342 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Argument for an Aphorism
Samuel Hazo once quoted the aphorism, “Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.” The truth of this statement can best be seen in the following deductive argument. People awake each day with expectations. Expectations set a limit to happiness. Therefore, people awake each day setting a limit to their happiness. This can also be realized in the following story titled The Optimist.
There is a story of identical twins. One …showed first 75 words of 342 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 342 total…one of the children was an optimist and the other a pessimist, it can be still be used to understand the original aphorism. The pessimist expected the computer to be a color he desired, a sturdier calculator, a game he would enjoy, and a bigger toy car. When he didn’t get those things he was disappointed and, therefore, unhappy. The optimist, however, didn’t expect anything and consequently was happy with what he received.
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