It is most important to go on the path to self discovery on him or her own because society is blocking them from their own thoughts and the realization that it is possible to survive without anyone else. Everyone is always being told how to think or act. It is important to reflect without having any influences from the world in order to not lose oneself. In Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, as she walks on The Pacific Crest Trail she begins to reflect on the reasons that she decided to hike the trail in the first place and to find answers to the questions that is being blocked by society. while she is thinking about this she says, “Since I’d begun hiking, the struggles of my life had only fluttered occasionally through my mind. Why, oh why, had my good mother died… How could my family, once so close and strong, have fallen apart so swiftly” (Strayed 84). She would not have
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She even points out that their arn’t specific rules to follow to self discovery. The way she planned to do this turned out not to be the way she needed to, in order to clear her mind. She had to go a separate way and apart herself from the people she met to finish her journey. Lindville even says on his journey, “I was looking for something to completely change myself and really get rid of the demons that were created from war” (Wang). Even though this isn't from the book it shows that even people going through this now don't know exactly what they are looking for. Strayed has been hiking for awhile now and she has accepted that life will not collapse if she is not there to take care of everyone all of the time. While taking a rest she says, “I was three weeks into my hike, but everything in my feet altered. I lay in the water as long as I could without breathing, alone in a strange new land, while the actual world all around me hummed on” (Strayed 135). She has finally taken one moment to just relax, which she has always thought to be impossible, and to realize that everything is still
She even points out that their arn’t specific rules to follow to self discovery. The way she planned to do this turned out not to be the way she needed to, in order to clear her mind. She had to go a separate way and apart herself from the people she met to finish her journey. Lindville even says on his journey, “I was looking for something to completely change myself and really get rid of the demons that were created from war” (Wang). Even though this isn't from the book it shows that even people going through this now don't know exactly what they are looking for. Strayed has been hiking for awhile now and she has accepted that life will not collapse if she is not there to take care of everyone all of the time. While taking a rest she says, “I was three weeks into my hike, but everything in my feet altered. I lay in the water as long as I could without breathing, alone in a strange new land, while the actual world all around me hummed on” (Strayed 135). She has finally taken one moment to just relax, which she has always thought to be impossible, and to realize that everything is still