Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, is a play that presents the most simple aspects of life. "That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those. . . of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another." This statement made by Simon Stimson in the third act, holds a certain amount of truth to it. It says that we all live our lives thinking that we have all the time in the world, and don't realize how precious life really is, and that we take it for granted. That most of our actions are driven by shallow desires, and that we sometimes hurt those most important to us not realizing that they are not there forever. These truths can be applied to both the play
This quote, and these examples show how precious life is and how we often take it for granted. This must be true to some extent because in order to realize how precious and short life is, we would constantly be thinking about the day that it will end. To think about dying all the time is to stressful and would drive anyone to constantly paranoid.
As much in the play these truths are just as applicable to life. Many of us walk around as if we have all the time in he all the time in the world and don't realize how valuble life is. This is very evident in those who choose to waste their lives on drugs. If they truly valued their lives, they wouldn't destroy them and shorten their lives for drugs. They choose to risk their lives just to become high. Some people don't realize that the ones they love the most won't be aro
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