reader response to Walljasper

Len Lai

Prof. Laura Sheehan

ESOL 0360

April 11, 2015

Reader- Response to Walljaper

In the essay, “Our Schedules, Our Selves” by Jay Walljasper explains how we manage to become slaves of our schedules, and the way we think about our schedules. Walljasper says, “We are not leading our lives, but merely following a dizzying timetable of duties, commitments, demands, and options” (260). This essay was first published in 2003. The author develops his thesis by explaining the reasons and giving the solutions.

The problem that is more common now than it was in 2003 is “Our own human desire for more choices new experiences” (261). Nowadays, the technology is growing very fast such as cell phone people want to have more time to explore something new than the past. For example, Walljasper writes, “An expanding choice of cultural offerings over recent decades and the liberating sense that each of us can fully play a number of different social roles (worker, citizen, lover, parent, artist, etc.) has opened up enriching and exciting opportunities” (261).

The solution that Walljasper discusses which is unrealistic is “time can make a big difference in how you feel about your life, as other articles in this cover section illustrate” (262). Making our schedules or plans helps us to manage our time to have organized lives, but time cannot make a big difference in our lives.