After reading the story "The Fifty-First Dragon", I realized that everyone, in their own way, has "dragons" to slay. When applying this to my own life, I realized that I too had dragons to slay.

In the story the main character, Gawain, battles dragons, one after another without any failure. This is a great and wonderful product of using a "magic" word to make him impossible to harm. Though Gawain believes in this word, he soon finds that the word is indeed not magic and provided no advantage on his part at all. At this point, he becomes very discouraged and fails to slay a dragon, a failure that became his last.

My own "dragons", I believe, are much less terrifying than that of the dragons Gawain had slain. My dragons could be considered burdens, more or less. In my life, I must learn every day to cope with physical and mental stress. My stresses are concentrated around things like school and friends. This is because they are some of the biggest parts of my life; and though these things may seem minor or easy to deal with, I indeed need to try my hardest to manage them.

Seeing that I have obstacles in my life that truly need "slaying", helps me in the sense that this will sort out just what my goals should be. Gawain knew his goals, and that helped him to accomplish them. The only possibility that stands in the way is the chance of a deception as severe as in "The Fifty-First Dragon". This, with high hopes, shouldn't happen . . . right?