Thoreau`s American Life

Thoreau 's American Life

Walden is about one man 's attempt to find the principles by which to live a proper life . Thoreau lived his life in such a way that he found no room for finding out too late what he 's missing

Thoreau 's American life was awe-inspiring . It makes us want to experience the same life he had . Many of us look at life like over reactions of events and outside forces . Our purpose of living has become a survival . Americans , or practically everyone , today work themselves like there

's no tomorrow . We slave ourselves so we can feed our family and provide them shelter and send our kids to good school . Forgetting to stop and smell the roses and really enjoy life just like Thoreau

Our culture places too much emphasis on the financial aspect of getting a living . In so doing , we have turned our school into producing people specialized in many fields . We then agree to spend the greater part of our lives trading these skills for money . If our greatest reward is the money , skilled as we may be we are still just spit-turning dogs . And that 's the polite metaphor

Reading Walden will make us realize what really is important in this life . As we spend too much time becoming experts in our fields , it is also important to stop and think what we really do wanted . It is such a waste if we continue to become too engrossed with the present and forget that there is a thing called tomorrow before us

Living deliberately won 't necessarily make you rich in the traditional sense because it aims at a more valuable reward . As Emerson said in his eulogy to Thoreau "He chose to be rich by making his wants few , and supplying them himself

Source

Richard Lenat . Walden by Henry Thoreau - 1854 . 1999...