We started talking and dealing with loss, when we started thinking about loss, some students came up with the idea of thinking about the good times of the individual instead of the wicked witch can help someone experiencing loss like Jacob did. We talked about how when one forgets it's like it never happened, and for Jacob it treated his life experiences like his life never happened. Corey talks about how he became content and how he was unhappy and wasteful his entire life. As Melvin Josh, the philosophy teacher, spoke, I began to realize that in life we suffer, and foolishly believe that there is an end to suffering by achieving something, doing something, or feeling something, but no matter what you never truly get there. end. This is seen in Jacobs life where he goes through this revelation questioning his life and the life he could have had that could have brought him more money or how he could have treated his wife much better. Eventually his thoughts lead him to the truth as he realizes that Jacob is somehow freed from suffering, and that is where true peace is found. My thoughts on this story were, in my opinion, a great representation of what ordinary humans go through when it comes to losses that mean something in life
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