Choices: a Metaphor for Life, for My Life

The little girl tripped over the broken branch and the steep roots hidden under the colorful green leaves and was dragged into the forest by her older sister and friend. Her sister grasped her hand firmly to prevent her getting lost. A rich fragrance runs through the forest, trying to seduce the fascinating aroma of fruits and fruits as they tease them and bend them in the wrong direction. The girl 's hair was tangled with her older sister and branches of the bush just climbed.

The above example is only a part of a living metaphor illustrating the lives of people. What metaphor is suitable for your life? Do they work for you or restrict your choice by causing problems? You can change the metaphor and change the metaphor (eg add key to prison cell, etc). However, this requires some effort. Spend time thinking about the metaphors appropriate for your life, find patterns you do not deserve, motivate you in a positive direction, use it to help you deal with obstacles all of us encounter can do. Let's think about the metaphor of your life today. But that's not all. Regularly review your life metaphor. They are a positive metaphor that can bring peace and satisfaction to you, help you to achieve your goals, or allow you to see the beauty around you. Or are their negative metaphors restricting your life?

Most of us think of the metaphor as a device only for singing and poetry, and that has nothing to do with our daily lives. In fact, we use metaphor for everyone to talk, write and think in our daily life. Unavoidable. The metaphor is sometimes built by our common language and they are called "traditional metaphor". John Donne, a metaphysical poet, is known for his utmost use of the metaphor through his poetry. In his famous work "The Sun Rise" the speaker laughed at the sun to wake him up and raise his beloved. In the most exciting metaphor of literature, he explained that "she is all country, all prince, me." It shows the speaker's belief that he and his lover are better than all the countries and kingdoms of the world. And rulers are wealthy because they share love.

The metaphor is incorrect but has meaning - it sounds like life. Appropriately, using figurative education, enhance and clarify the strangeness of life. Literally, metaphor is devastating. Understanding the influence of metaphor literally is as harmless as thinking that the whole world is submerged and the dinosaur died five thousand years ago. Because a bearded white-haired man did not put them on a boat. Or you can drive a truck into the crowd and you can live forever with 72 gorgeous virgins (the virgin part is only a temporary condition, otherwise 72 virgins live in paradise ) I feel like a bad idea when bringing the blue ball of the universe size and suicide / explosive. )