Everyone has their own world and their own problems to deal with. Even with our self centered thinking, most of the time we think about others and how the slightest thing could make someone's day such as a small smile. We don't know what a person goes through on a daily basis, but when we interact with each other even for a brief second, we understand that we don't know this person and have to give them the benefit of the doubt even for a brief moment. Using the mom example exemplifies how sometimes we just think about ourselves and have to try to make those brief interactions smooth and easy because we truly don't know what is going on in someone else's head.

Sometimes we get so distracted in our daily lives along with the social media around us. Social media now affects most people if not all. According to social media, things have to be a certain way. Since so many people can be easily influenced through social media, their thought process along with their actions can be changed. For example, women glorify on social media that being perfect means we have to have a small waist and a flat tummy. There's a lot of women out there who go on diets and get cosmetic procedures to look like women on social media. These sort go things affect how one thinks about themselves.

I disagree with Wallace because there's a lot of people that think differently and think about the present. Different thoughts can be running in a person's head when they are in a difficult situation such as what is going on right now? How can it be fixed? Is there something can be done? Some people will try to figure something out a solution to a problem right there and then rather than waiting to solve it. Not everyone will think this way and will overthink a situation or problem the way that Wallace is describing.

I completely agree with this statement because people go by their day and see how things will affect them first over anything else. For example, you have to go to work, but how are you going to get there? How will you get back home? You have to think about yourself first. Every core memory is embedded with you, how you felt, why you felt that way and how it makes you feel to this day. It makes one think about how people around us can change the way YOU think. Maybe once YOU disagreed with a certain topic, but someone convinced you otherwise.

Everyday we go through different things and at times we just don't think about our surroundings because we're so invested in our own world. Wallace using the religious and atheist guy as an example to highlight was a great way to show that one person can and will think differently than the other. People and their beliefs are around us. This can change the way we think or change our perspective in the way we see things.