In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakeur it shows an aspect of people that many don't see or ever experience. This book tells of a twenty year old boy that is connected to nature and has a lust to escape civilization. Sure now you think I'm going to go on ranting about how he was so abnormal and he had aspects other people don't. This is different this book tells of this boy who was an actual person named Christopher McCandless. Chris set off on a journey to hitch hike across America and then eventually get to Alaska. This book is very inspirational for me because Chris gave away what he had and completely started over something all people want to do at one point or another in their life.
Many people have gone out into the wilderness and have come bounding back but Christopher McCandless has spent numerous months by himself providing himself with only the resources of nature. Knowing this is what makes it even more suprising that he was found dead. Chris new about nature and had been living in these conditions for over three years. Christopher inspired many people by the way he lived. I find that the way he decided to start over again is an admirable trait. He burned all of his money and worked for money when he needed it to buy supplies. I feel there is always a person in your life that is capable of anything they want to do you just don't know who they are yet. People have become lazy and reliant on other Chris wanted to make himself self reliant and wanted to be the best he could be.
Everyone should have a passion of their own and should be able to follow through on it. Christopher mcCandless was able to follow his passion and was wildly successful with his goals... Long term not so much. People say life is short so live freely but if you live too freely life will be very short. A lot can be learned from Chris but most people just take life for granted and play it as if they will live forever. This is way too much to write in a blog post and who am I to tell people how to live in a response to a book. Chris McCandless lived like every day was his last. You can compare this to eigth grade, you know it's going to end but you never bother to think when. Like life eighth grade has had fond memories, angry memories, and sad memories. If you put things in full scale life is much more complicated but Chris shows me at least to live and don't do anything you wont regret later on in your life.
