People are blind to the world around them. People become so wrapped up in their daily lives that they forget that there is so much more in the world. In the speech given by 
David Foster Wallace, This is Water, Wallace talks about how repetitive the daily life of the average working man is. Doing the exact same tedious routine every day. People become blind to the lives of those around them and focus only on their selves. Wallace points out that people should think more about the world around them and be more considerate to others. Just because they are having a bad day does not give them the right to be angry and rude to others. Others could be in an even worse situation than they are. In society today, life becomes repetitive and tedious. People forget that there is more to the world than their job and their life at home. No matter what Instead of getting mad at the world, and getting mad at others, people should look at the world around them and explore and think of the lives of others, not just themselves.

In society today, people do the same routine every day for most of their adult lives. College students may not exactly understand what this really means, because they have not yet had to work the typical nine to five hours every day. They have not lived the same day for years over and over. What Wallace tries to say is that college students do not yet understand how hard it will be when they get out of college. He says many college graduates have experienced a typical adult day, but they have not yet experienced the typical adult life. They still have not worked the same job for years. But once they graduate, they will really understand what it means to be an adult.

The point that Wallace is trying to make, is not that living an adult life is dreadful, but instead it is yourself who chooses if your life is dreadful or not. In the typical day of an adult, there are many things that can frustrate someone. But Wallace says that one has to choose to get out of the mindset that one is the center of the world. There are billions of other people in the world living the same adult lives. There is no point in getting frustrated and annoyed by them, because they are going through the same things. People forget about the world around them and focus on themselves. One has to consciously try to think of the world around them in their daily lives, because humans think only of themselves by default “Thinking this way is my natural default-setting.” (Wallace) Everyone thinks of themselves by default. It is a person’s choice to think of others. Wallace says that adults may not be able to think of others everyday but that sometimes people may just be angry and frustrated that day and not have the will to think of others “and if you're like me, some days you won't be able to do it, or you just flat-out won't want to.” (Wallace) In society today, life can become extremely repetitive but people just need to look at the people around them and not focus on themselves. Some days it may be impossible, but most days people should try and think of others. If everyone did this, then in the end, the world would be a much happier place. 

Thinking of others is not necessarily the right thing to do “please don't think that I'm giving you moral advice, or that I'm saying you're "supposed to" think this way.” (Wallace) It is a choice that a person makes themselves. One does not have to be intelligent or come from a prestigious college to be able to think of others more than oneself. It only takes awareness. Being aware means to notice the world around oneself. Not just what pertains to oneself. To be aware one has to take in the lives of others and consider that they’re lives may not be as hard as others around them, and that they may be just as annoying to others as they are to them. Sometimes it is best to take a step back and become aware of the world around oneself, not become wrapped up in one’s own life and what oneself might want. The world we live in is inhabited by about seven billion people. That means that one person takes up about one seven billionth of the world. In perspective, that makes one seem unimportant and insignificant, but that is the opposite of the truth. Every person in this world have the power to make the world a better place by being aware of others lives and being kind to others. Only every small person in this world can choose to be aware of others.

People are blind to the world around them. People become so wrapped up in their daily lives that they forget that there is so much more in the world. People do have a choice to think of others more however. One can think of others and make the world a better place. Just because someone may be having a bad day does not give them the right to be angry and rude to others. Others could be in an even worse situation than they are. In society today, life becomes repetitive and tedious. People forget that there is more to the world than their job and their life at home. Instead of getting mad at the world, and getting mad at others, people should look at the world around them and explore and think of the lives of others, not just themselves. This is not about being moral “None of this is about morality, or religion, or dogma, or big fancy questions of life after death.” (Wallace)This is about life before death, and making the best of it. In the end, this would make the world a little better to live in.
