Also McCandles wanted to escape the clutches of society to get away from people controlling him, where as Thoreau just somewhat wanted a change, he wanted to experience life, Thoreau said " I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i couldn't not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i come to die, discover that i had not yet lived." Thoreau not only had knowledge and passion, but he had common sense too. He didn't see fit to put his life in danger for his journey, he knew when it was time to go get supplies. Where as McCandless was a smart kid, but he was with little experience in the wilderness that he embarked on, leading him to his eventually demise. Some might say that he lived his life to the fullest and put his whole heart into his dream, and others would call him a silly dreamer who didn't know better.
To express this in other words, if you are working on a hard problem, you are going to make mistakes. It’s easy to expect perfection from ourselves and/or the fear the judgment that comes with “messing up”. Even at its worse, we learn from those errors to really dive into the problem for a successful result. That is not a new concept, but it is one that is often forgotten. Mistakes are actually indicators that you are actually trying to succeed, so without them you are not doing much at all.
He means that if the venture needs you to be anyone else but yourself, it will lead to no good. This reveals to me that Thoreau believes strongly in the individual, being yourself, and seeking your own path. This quote is also applicable to modern life because many ventures nowadays require you to conform for some purpose. The second aphorism I remembered is “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity.” Thoreau means that our focus and attention to detail now in society and culture do nothing but to waste our lives away needlessly. He believes simplicity is the better choice.
We have to realize that they are the ones in pain and that they are just prolonging what they know is going to happen. By prolonging their death just makes it that much harder to deal with. It is easier said than done, but if you stop and think about it and put it in God’s everything will be okay. I agree with her being by her father’s side and reassuring him that he was no burden to her. I disagree that she didn’t discuss what he wanted to do and do it regardless how it was hurting her.
At the beginning Franklin wants to get rid of his old habits and create new good ones, he creates a chart of all these virtues he is going to follow. At the end, however, Franklin realizes that a “speckled ax was best”. Franklin says, “I employed found the difficulty of obtaining good and breaking bad habits in the other points of vice and virtue, have given up the struggle, and concluded that “a speckled ax was best” (116). Franklin is saying that a speckled ax was best because sometimes perfection isn’t always the best. This represents that we have the choice to choose how much we want to change.
It is Frost’s opinion of how he chose to live his life. It tells us that journeys may not always go to plan and we may not always be pleased with the choices that we make. It also means you can not change the past so we must stick to our decision. As well as this message, Frost also portrays the message that if you decide to take a riskier path in life, it will more than likely be much more rewarding as you will have a sense of accomplishment as you overcame the obstacle. He delivers these messages by using various language devices that include metaphors, repetition and imagery.
They all have different views of how they may affect society and other individuals around them but their end goal is the same. Source one and source three both believe men must take direct action In order to do so but source three believes that man often rushes into helping with the wrong solution, whilst source one believes the right answer just comes to mankind because of our original good nature and we do what we can to ease their suffering. Both of these sources are contradicted by source two. Even though the man in source two’s intention is to help out the world he is doing it an, an opposite way that source one and two would agree with. He decided that not taking any action is the best action.
In order for him to succeed and fulfill his personal legend, he must remove doubt and fear from his mind and replace it with strength and persistence. Santiago’s journey is a lesson, reminding us that anything worth having requires great determination and perseverance and that one does not succeed
I was sad and depressed. It was one of the worst feelings leaving my girl and son behind, but deep down I knew it was right. I had to do what I had to do, and I couldn’t let anything get in the way of my goals for me or my family. I knew that everything would work out impeccably in the end, because everything happens for a reason. Will Demps also writes in his essay titled “Groupie Love” that he removes himself from temptation by surrounding himself with like minded players.
One of the big differences between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people would achieve their goals and dreams proactively and better their life. The meaning of being proactive is not only to take action, but also personal responsibility. Action depends on personal responsibility, not external environment. Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind People always lose direction in our life and waste time. High effectively people know how to design their future.