Sound Blog Response #5

Man and Beast - Alan Robinowich
http://themoth.org/posts/stories/man-and-beast
This story is wonderful, it is such an uplifting lighthearted story. At least that is how I took it, I understand if you don't see it that way seeing as how this guy has struggled horribly his entire life. Yes that is true but he overcame it and now he is doing something he loves. If I can be as happy as he seems when i'm older I think I will be set. He is living a dream, getting to chase around these beautiful and mysterious creatures all day and document what they are doing. I think that is a pretty rad job.
I have never heard of someone having such a severe stutter, when I was little I had a very slight stutter  but it went away pretty quickly. I never thought it could cause your body to convulse and make it impossible to talk to people. That is something I cannot imagine dealing with. Something I think is really odd is that he can talk to animals, and that most people with stutters wont when talking to animals. That is really interesting to me that someone has something crossed in their brain that causes them to freeze when talking to people but not animals. Like they are afraid that anything they say would be judged or people would take it offensively, so rather then say it their body forces them not to.
"He's always been on my mind ever since then..."
storycorps.org/listen/bill-cosgrove/
This story made me realize just how lucky some people are. He would have been crushed when the north tower fell if he had not stumbled up the father. It also makes me realize how unlucky some people are that didn't stumble upon someone and did get crushed when the tower fell. It makes me feel lucky to be thousands of miles away from the scene when it happened. It makes me appreciate just how easy and happy my life is, because some people are going through some really tough situations out there.
I wonder how bill must have felt when the north tower fell. I wonder if he realized that if it were not for finding the father he might have been crushed. What it must have been like to realize that you very well could have just died must make you rethink somethings in your life. I think it is amazing that he stuck with being a cop  even after coming so close to death because of it. It takes an amazing kind of person to be able to do that.