Assignment 11- Quinn Andrews

I will admit I'm a wimp. I get scared pretty easily. That said, I'm not scared of the dark, or spiders, or heights. My most prominent fear is to lose my ability to think for myself. When I can no longer solve puzzles or remember my brother's name. I'm terrified of the day my mind gets foggy and forget everything. When this happens, people cease to be themselves. Our minds hold our memories, our preferences, our personalities. Strip those away and there is not much left. In fact, there is very little but our need to eat, sleep, and breathe. My ability to think and imagine and solve makes me who I am, it's the one thing I can always depend on-- my ability to reason. To lose that would mean being at the mercy of other people's thoughts and ideas. When you can't make decisions yourself, others have to make them for you. Personal thought is independence that is incredibly hard to take away, but the effects are devastating. That is why my greatest fear is losing my ability to think freely.