For Each Morning

"For each new morning with it's light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything thy goodness sends." 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I absolutely love this quote not only because it is a great prayer but also because it helps me remember what I should be thankful for everyday. I have friends, and food, and I am thankful to wake up in the mornings and start a new day. I thought of Frankenstein's creature because he didn't have "love and friends" but he had everything else. He woke up in the morning and got food or kept trucking along with his sad and lonely life. I had trouble with my feelings towards creature because I felt bad for him because he didn't have anyone. But then I was angry at him for murdering William and Elizabeth. It was just a back and forth, back and forth feeling for me. I felt especially bad when he had spent so much time helping the DeLacey family and learning from them and they ended up rejecting him. If only they could hear his story and realize what he had gone through. All of the trekking by himself and hearing screams every time he went for a walk around people. How miserable would you be if that was you? I would never ever ever EVER be happy. I wonder if I would turn to the same paths creature took. If my creator and the world rejected me, how would I react?? Would my creator be able to listen to me like Victor did to creature?? I'm surprised Victor didn't drop dead with a heart attack after exchanging a few words with creature! After all the suspense of finding creature and killing him all Victor did was listen. Was it really that hard? I mean c'mon. Yes he's a murder and quite hideous but it's one simple conversation. Creature had "rest and shelter" and "food" but he didn't have "love and friends!" I think that's the second most important part of Emerson's quote. We, as humans, obviously need food to survive, but being alone is what truly scares me. When I think of growing up, I'm not scared of not having food or shelter, I'm scared of being alone. I'm scared of dying alone. And that is where I feel the strongest sympathy towards creature. He did die alone. But what flips the coin of anger is when he kills Elizabeth! If I was sad and lonely and just downright miserable, I would not want to inflict that on anyone else. However, I do see where creature was coming from. Creature was able to ask Victor to create another creature. He had the chance but it was destroyed. I, on the other hand, might just turn out to be a frog lady. I might not have the opportunity. Creature's mate, if you will, was right there in front if him, literally. He was watching Victor as he made and destroyed her. And that is what destroyed him and what would probably destroy me too.