Blog Entry 6: Review Socrates' and Plato's Allegory

     When I was a child I always believed in that the life of adult people is more fun then mine. According to the "Allegory in a Cave" by Plato I can say that be a child is like being a chained person.
     I used to believe that life on my own will be much easier for me because I will decide about everything I want, I will spent my money in the way I would like, and nobody will tell me what I have to do in my life, what is bad or good way of behavior in life. I always thought I will enjoy it a lot. I thought like a lot children that when they become adult than the rest of people will count with their opinions. I realized after years, when I finally become adult by age, that reality is much different than we thought before we discovered everything about that what we wanted. That what I used to believe was partly true. the problem is that I haven't think about how much responsibility I will have to afford in my life when I will be adult. As a child we usually think just about advantages, we don't take an option of problems which start in pair with some age.
 When I used to go just to school, all I was worried about was how to get good grades and what will I do after classes will be done. On weekends I could do whatever I wanted. I used to go with friends to play basketball, we were going to ride on bikes or inline skates. During the nights we used to go on parties which were made for teenagers. I hadn't make any money than so all of it I usually took from parents. It wasn't too much but always enough on some fun. I knew it that I was dependent of my parents and that if I will argue with them too much than I won't get any money or I would get some penalty. I felt than like a person from Socrates' allegory because If somebody older didn't give me enough funds or didn't let me go somewhere than I wasn't able to do anything. I felt than closed in my house like a person chained to the rocks in allegory.
   Adult life is a little bit different than I used to imagine that as a child. I can do whatever I want to, but it usually goes with some responsibillity. I have to go every day to work. As we know money doesn't give happiness but we need it anyway to pay rent, bills, school, and everyday expenses.  That is the part which can be compared to the allegory's prisoner who got out of his cave life and realized that the life outside is full of surprises, new things, which scared him. I like my life style even that is usually in hurry. I always have a time after my job and school to enjoy it. Weeks are sometimes hard but I find a time to rest during the weekend.
     I have a moments in my life when I would like to come back to my "cave" - childhood. That happen mostly because new bad experiences in my life. I good know it is not possible anymore, but anyway it is not what I really want to. I think that the problem is sometimes people expect more from life than they can have. We have to accept many things and the true is that we can't come back to some moments the same like prisoner in Socrates story. People should look forward and do not think about what could happen if they would be back to the biginnings.