#1

"Our agency is both constrained and enabled by the contexts in which we find ourselves." (pg 195) This means that not only are you held back by the context in which you find yourself but it also intrigues or pushes you to advance and reach out of the box in which you find yourself. Agency seems tricky but when I think about it and try to put it into one of my own personal situations, I think it is becoming more clear. Growing up, I was limited to a certain amount of intake of culture, and just anything different from what our family was suppose to look/act/talk/live around/live like and be according to my father. So, this caused me to want to break out and know people and things. It made me hesitate a few times, because I had no idea but, for the most part it intrigued me. I didn't want to be constrained anymore. And here I am, living in Chicago, a place I chose to move because I knew not one single person, 500 miles away from my family.