Vanished

The "Vanished" article was a very intriguing idea in my opinion. I think the main aspect of the article that stuck with me most is how strange and exciting it must be to leave your old life behind. In the article, Evan started out with a very well-constructed strategy to disguise his location and seemed very enthusiastic about the challenge, but near the end he seemed very burnt-out by the whole experience. It's amazing, I think, how vital people and things are to what makes us individuals. Not to say that people are completely dependent on all things familiar, though some definitely are, but they are certainly important in how we define ourselves. By the end of the article, Evan seemed lonely and almost lost without talking to the people closest to him. For some I drew a connection between that and how prisoners feel locked up and away from their families. Everything around a prisoner is seemingly unfamiliar, yet the only thing that seems to keep most of them going is remaining in contact with friends and family. If we were to be somehow kidnapped and taken to another place and out of contact with everyone we knew for an extended period of time, we might lose what we've come to know as "ourselves". The things we do, what we like, who's close to us, are all extremely essential to being us. I'm sure what I'm writing about wasn't what Evan had in mind when he set out on his game of hide-and-seek, but that's what I thought about when I really analyzed everything.