This is water读后感

The Review Writing ofThis is WaterThe author, David Foster Wallace, was considered by many to be one of the finest writers of his generation. He only gave one speech in public in all his life, in which he talked about his view of life. The speech happened in a commencement of Kenyon College in 2005. Now, the widely distributed video has been into a thin book, which name is “this is water”.According to Wallaces view, thewaterwas on behalf of themostobviously, the most importantreality,butit wasdifficult to seeor talk about; and“the same experience for different peoplemay meansomething completely different”, because everyonehad a different “default settings”anda different way from the experiencein the construction of meaning.Therefore,the idealof liberal educationwas to makepeople out ofthis selfcenter,learning to“how to think”and “thinking” control.Wallace thencuttothe usualhumor andplainphilosophy from thecontemporaryurban life,pointing out theimportance of maintainingvigilance and consciousness. At the same time, we should befree to choose theway of looking at things.At the beginning of the speech, Wallace talked a story about the fish, and it is pointed out that “the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the hardest to see and talk about”. In our daily life,wetend to think that we are the absolute center of the natural, just like our default-setting. But most,we tend toautomatically determine thething,in fact,is completely wrong, even be fooled. Therefore in front of fact, we should learn to choose and think deeply. Then Wallace cited an example of the story of shopping in the supermarket. Just as our natural default-setting, we may think that traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines are pissed and miserable experience. When we think like this, we are operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that we are the center of the world, so that wefeelthe mostboring and the most frustratingpartin the adult world. However, if we changed our method of thinking, we may feel the difference of the things and make other choices. But doing like this is hard, needs will and mental effort. If we want to feel a meaningful and sacred experience instead of a crowed, loud, slow situation, the only thing we should do is to decide what to worship. We have the right to decided what to worship, but there are different kinds of freedom.The real freedom includes attention, and awareness, and displaying. In order to achieve this freedom, we should keep reminding ourselves “This is water” constantly. But it is hard to maintainawareness andactivityintheadultworld; we should keep study from now on. 在日常生活中，我们经常凭借对别人的第一印象而对他下定论，但是长时间了解之后我们会发现他并不是正如一句名言所说，生活中不是缺少美，而是缺少发现美的眼睛。我们应该善于发现隐藏在事物表层下面的东西，那将为我们打开另一个世界，As a famous saying said, life is not a lack of beauty