from unborn to newborn
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"He looked at himself: already smelling of old age, yet still unborn." At last, he saw himself: who he was before and who he will be once he gave in to his heartfelt feelings bursting from his chest. After realizing that he did not actually live life the way it is supposed to be when he was still teaching, he began to appreciate life and its true value. Ah, we have seen him transformed from the hell-is-other-people professor, who sees a thousand reasons to read books for the umpteenth time, into an I-am-learning-to-live-life person who now yearns for someone to talk to, even if the conversation would only concern petty and trivial things. This conversion of his character made him look like a newborn child, embracing another chance of a new and meaningful life.
Susan Lara's "Old and Unborn" showed us how the professor altered, giving him an odd and ironic description of being old yet unborn. Before, he was grumpy old professor who claims he is knowledgeable of the things that are important in one's life saying that intellectual ideas are far more superior to the latest isms. But the truth is, he did not. He was blind, making him unable to see that those superfluous things are, in fact, never floated nor empty for they are of substance. By showing how a new Professor Lazaro was conceived in the end, the author conveys to us the true meaning of man's existence being able to feel concern for others save for thy self...