Somnambulist, By Alfie Kohn

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Majority of people don’t realize that you only live once, and life is sadly very short. The older you get the more you realize that happiness takes work. Everybody wants happiness. But people are unconscious and sleep walking through life preventing them from achieving happiness and their goals. The article “How not to get into college” by Alfie Kohn and the poem “Somnambulist” are great bodies of literature that contain a similar problem. The problem found in both is that people do not acknowledge intrinsic happiness and disregard it. The article focuses on the educational system and students who are not being prepared properly for their future with the focus being completely towards post-secondary education. Likewise the poem applies to
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