"They seek solitude, a chance to look within. They have rejected life and its rules, instead they seek to find rules instead of make them up, learn instead of teach. From outside these actions are confusing, pointless. You cannot redefine yourself if you are hampered by the things that define you. You have to spend time thinking about, questioning, and defining your own existence.
But there was a side to him that was a little bit dreamy, a little bit out of touch with reality" (Krakauer 81).
Inspiration or Fool?
Through reading this book (through chapter 9) I have decided that there is no such thing as communal logic. Common sense is truly as far it goes for inter-human wisdom. What makes sense to me may seem ludicrous to you and inspiration to the next person. Who am I to say that Christopher McCandeless is or is not crazy. But then again i suppose that is your very assignment. Before I heard his story I would have thought he was just very idealistic but now I can see that although that is part of it, that is not the whole picture. He was in love with thought of nature, solitude and testing societal limits and who can blame him for that? I surely cannot. Through his journey he was looking to find himself in a very drastic way to say the least, but as I am reflecting on what I have read and what I know about him, all I can hope is that he truly did find himself, and that he was happy with it. Isn't that truly what we all want? True happiness and self worth without anyone else? Just me? Well and I suppose Chris... To some this all up I think I am fifty-fifty on inspiration or Fool. Tune in Wednesday for the next installment.
I like what you have written. Brilliant.
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