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 I chose to read Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road from Writ 340’s selection of autobiographical memoirs. Looking through the list, I think the title appealed to me the most. Reading about someone’s experience while traveling across the world and meeting different people sounds like something I will do as I prepare to join the army, with the possibility of deployment one day. From reading this book, I am hoping to learn about how interactions with different people around the world can shape a person’s views and how they live life.

The first chapter emphasizes on the idea of exploring the vast unknown of our lives. Steinem seemed to have her own image of stereotypes before taking her road trip as she gets hyperconscious upon seeing bikers. However, she realizes that even the group of bikers had life lessons to share when they were able to get to know each other. The idea that everyone “has a bike” in their hearts is something that stuck out to me. This bike is our desire to discover the unknown, to leave our comfort zone and explore what other people’s experiences have to offer. No one is self made, we build upon each other from our experiences and help each other grow as a human being.


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