Thinking For Our Future by Emily

Thinking For Our Future by Emily - October 2018 Scholarship Essay

To think outside the box, open your mind, look at life from a new perspective, and challenge the way we do things today. Never settle when you can dream better. It was Walt Disney that said, “If you can dream it, you can do it”. If we can dream it, we can make it a reality. Thinking outside the box is how we progress as a species in all categories of life, two being medicine and transportation.
Medicinal advancements occur every year. Think about the first proposal that cures should be studied to create treatments. This had to have been a crazy idea when it was first proposed because poison kills, how could it possibly be good for us? Fast forward to today, million of lives have been saved from medicines such as epitifibaticle and tirofiban, treatments for chest pains to heart attacks that are derived from the African Saw-scaled Viper. With the idea that medicines can be derived from animals, bugs, and plants, we have treated and cured countless illnesses that have plagued us before.
Take transportation for another example.
We went from our own two feet, to animals, to automobiles, to air travel. We would not be where we are today without the first wheel invented in 3500 BC in Iraq. The creation of the first wheel took creativity, hard work, and a lot of drive (get it?). Then, the wheel was applied to the automobile. This out of the box way of thinking has influenced history and culture for the betterment of all mankind. Thinking outside the box is how we live in a world of creativity and development.