Vignettes Response

      While I was reading through some of the vignette projects people wrote, I found that Luis Alba's post, Lhadzhe Bosiljevac's post, and Mercedes Thorne's post had the connection in which they were running away from something. In Luis's post, he was running away from the police, in Lhadzhe's post she was running away from someone who was molesting her, and Mercedes was running from "something" evil in her dreams. The emotion that caused Luis, Lhadzhe, and Mercedes to run was fear.
      Humans are similar to animals and therefore react in similar ways. People respond to life threatening situations by freeze flight or fight. According to Joe Navarro "In order to ensure our survival, the brain's very elegant response to distress or threats, has taken three forms: freeze, fight, and fight" (Navarro p25). Luis, Lhadzhe, and Mercedes all responded to distress and threats by flight, or running away. Specifically, in Lhadzhe's post she responded to a threat and distress by fight, then flight. In other words, she fought back, then ran.
      In all three vignette posts there was a stimulus causing a person to run. Luis's vignette post was about graffiti and how he and his friend had to run away from police. In the post it said,

 "All of a sudden, a motorcycle engine just turned off. We ran. I looked back while running, across the train I could see red and blue lights on the floor and on the bridge on top of us. We heard a distant deep voice on a speaker...we ran and ran. “Stop! Come here! Stop!” is all we heard. We never looked back" (Alba)

When I read this, it immediately reminded me of the different ways in which people respond to different situations. Luis and his friend ran. Other people might freeze or maybe even fight back, but in this case he ran. When he ran, his brain was probably telling his body that he was scared and raised his adrenalin, allowing him to run faster. Since the police arrived right when he was about to pain a wall, he probably got scared and ran. If I was in Luis's situation and police were on top of a bridge telling to stop, my first reaction would be to run too. It's a normal response that humans make. This is similar to Mercedes post in which she was running away from something "evil" that was chasing her. She too, was also scared, which caused her to run. In Lhadzhe's vignette post, she fought back, then ran. It said,

"The struggle to take him down, only made him pull harder on my clothes. Step by step, second by second I began to fade. My last chance to leave I kicked him and fled. Rushing down the stairs, past his mother. Out  so far that the doors shut and he was gone away, but not from my mind."

What happened to her was horrible, but the way she responded to get out of that situation was by fight, then flight. If she didn't respond by fighting back, then running, a lot more horrible things might have happened. This was Lhadzhe's way of respond to distress. She was scared, and the person was doing some very bad things to her. After reading all these blog posts, I learned that the way Luis, Lhadzhe, and Mercedes got out of tough situations was by flight, or running. I think that this is the way most people will respond to distress when in tough situations.