"Serving in Florida" was a very descriptive story about the hardships that many people face. The introduction dissuaded me from reading it, because it seems I have heard this speech at least a million times in my life, and one more might just drive me to drop out. The thing that was most interesting about this reading was the description of this lifestyle. I have grown up in a very luxurious lifestyle, and the way of living described here is unacceptable to me. That is why this story has had more of an effect than the million others I have heard. It makes me feel really privileged to have the opportunity to go to college, and become what I want to be.
I found some humor in this story in that the author did this as an experiment, and realized that she could not deal with this lifestyle, and walked away from it feeling horrible. She believed that she could live like that, and in the end, could not handle it. She had "an overwhelming dank sense of failure." Now she goes back to her normal lifestyle after this little "experiment" realizing what life could be like. The thing that she fails to mention is that the people living this way cannot just go back to their own life if it does not work out. She felt a sense of failure when she could not go on anymore. The true failure of this story is that the people living this lifestyle do not have the option to quit, and must continue in this downward spiral of failing
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