Quote Reflection

I chose my quote because it showed a rational and logical way of thinking. The quote “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” (C.S. Lewis) is just truth. We don’t need friendship in order to survive, but we want it because we survived. It is a straightforward, logical and reasonable truth, this quote, and that is why I chose it. I feel that it represents me because I actually said that I didn’t need friends before I had read this quote. I also feel a compulsion to think rationally and logically in a manner such as this. I need to be able to think about exactly what something is in the same way Lewis defined friendship. I am able to relate to the way Lewis’s mind may have worked. If I hypothetically lived every moment of my life thinking of the way my quote says, I probably wouldn’t have as many friends. I would have exponentially different ones, too. I wouldn’t be able to maintain relationships with other people because I would put most other things at higher priority. And in regard to friendship giving survival its value, I would likely cherish the friendships I was able to maintain, because they are what give my life its merit.