Audio Blog 8

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/oct/31/sleepless-south-sudan/

This story is about a man who tlaks about how through science he has sort of learned the meaning of life. When he was younger, he lost a woman he loved after she traveled to Africa through the peace-corprs and came back with pancreatic cancer that had spread and eventually killed her off. Since he had nothing wrong with him, he had gotten to this mind state of whats the point of living if you are just going to die? I chose this story in particular because the description has something about how he woke up (in Africa) one night and his net had holes in it. That could be a bad thing because then mosquitoes could get you and mosquitoes have disease and all that so I figured, I want to know what happens to this guy. But what it turned out to be was at that moment when he woke up with that holey- net he wanted to keep that mind set sort of, of well I'm going to die anways so I might as well go back to sleep, but then he had that urge to stay a live. And he couldn't resist it, and he knew he couldnt just go back to sleep. It was a becautiful story because its like he just realized what makes him human, that urge to live and how thats helped him move on in his life. He is now married to a woman named Grace and together they have two little girls. Its a great story because I'm sure he realizes without that experience, he wouldn't have this new family because he'd still be stuck in that mind set.