most of the people are stopped in their lives only by their own ideas about what is pssible for them and what is not.everything is possible for them ,if they try hard enough. do you agree?comment with reference to the story"going places".

In the story, we come across Sophie as a young girl who is resolute upon making her own decisions and in turn, commit mistakes as well because to really learn from life is to make mistakes. She cannot be called a representative of the unguided youth because there are people like her brother and her friend Jansie who try to make her aware of the pitfalls that await her. But she chooses to ignore them and go ahead with her own ideas. Jansie was advising Sophie because the latter was building castles in the air about how she would have a boutique of her own. Sophie intended to save up by becoming a manager in a shop like Mary Quant, a natural so that they would make her a manager right from the start. She would have the most amazing shop the city's ever seen. Jansie, knowing that they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholic and advised her friend to be sensible about the future. Sophie was responsible for her own sadness and disappointment because she had deliberately propped herself up for something that was destined to end in failure. Sitting there waiting and knowing that Danny would not come, she could see the future and how she would have to live with the burden. The people back home would doubt the veracity of the incident but she in her heart knew that it had happened and remember how she felt when it did. Sadness was a hard thing to deal with and quite a burden but it was important for her to realize this and deal with it on her own terms. Her friend and brother had warned her beforehand but she did not listen.