Blog #13 - Agency

Question #1

:Our agency is both constrained and enabled by the contexts in which we find ourselves." By having some restraints or limitations in what we are able to do or able to be introduced to, can and does have an effect on our agency. I was born and raised in Missouri, and as a kid I really wanted to learn for to surf. Now I'm not the best at geography but last time I checked there was no oceans anywhere close to Missouri, just one dirty ass river, and I was not about to take a dip into that. I was constrained by my environment, but that constrained factor lead me to the person I am today in wanting to be a writer. The resources in my environment lead me to this part of my life, and in that way my agency enabled me to this junction in life. It is often in these limitations that either motivate us or enable us into something creative, and we will never find ourselves where we will truly be not constricted by anything, so if anything this statement juts goes with what the book says about us not having any say in our history or not having a choice with the things that we are born with (religion, sex, race, etc.) but rather we are dealt these life cards and it is up to us, to a point, to do something with them. So in limitations, we often find ourself with paths that we otherwise may not have noticed, and that is why this statement makes sense.

-Corte