the tao of pooh

P: Pay attention to word choice- how is the author shaping your judgement by the words he chooses.

R: In this particular chapter Benjamin Hoff chooses the words Bisy Backson. These two words and this particular chapter are making it difficult for me to continue reading the book. A Bisy Backson refers to a note that Christopher Robin left on his door intending to say, "Busy back soon". Hoff goes on and on and on to describe these Bisy Backsons, the ones who are always going never resting always working and even when they are resting they are finding some way to make themselves work. I AM A BISY BACKSON! I want to be a taoist, I do I really do, but as I read this book instead of feeling like I can live like a taoist, I feel even more like I'm never going to be able to. I'm always going, always looking for a "Great Reward waiting for us somewhere, and that what we have to do is spend our lives working like lunatics to catch up with it". It just is disappointing to me that I have let my high school career turn into this. The author's choice of words, and way of depicting those who do not practice the taoist way makes me judge myself and the way I'm living in a negative way. He talks about all these wonderful things that this way of life brings but doesn't explain how to change. He just shows to two radically different ways of life. I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to be judging but his choice of words is making it very easy to judge myself.