Topic change for assignment 3

Upon doing further research I have decided to change my topic for assignment 3. I am now going to be writing A Warrior’s Discourse. The assignment will be based on the book Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Milman, as well as other texts that go into depth about eastern philosophy. I just recently read this book and I found it to be very inspiring and relevant. This true story is about a gifted young athlete who is bound for Olympic gold and seems to have everything that he could ask for. After a life changing event, he relies on the teachings of Socrates, a mysterious stranger, to help him learn to overcome incredible odds. Here are some of the things I will be using from my sources:

“I call myself a peaceful warrior….because the real battles we fight are on the inside.”

“A warrior chooses his path with heart, any path with heart, and follows it; and then he rejoices and laughs. He knows because he sees that his life will be over altogether too soon. He sees that nothing is more important than anything else.”

“To be a Warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that no one is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”

Carlos Castaneda

The worst thing that could happen to us is that we have to die, and since that is already our unalterable fate, we are free; those who have lost everything no longer have anything to fear.