“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” Through my experience with transcendentalism, your words, Thoreau had a greater significance to me. The days in which I experimented, I discovered the true meaning of solitude through transcendentalism. Solitude serves as a canvas that we are supposed to paint our feelings and emotions on to find our inner peace. Unfortunately, in today’s society we are so busy being influenced by technology and social media that we can’t find our inner peace; we can’t paint our own canvas. Therefore, through your experience at Walden, I now understand that solitude provides numerous ways to achieve true balance in oneself that technology can’t.
In order to find “my intimacy with nature,” I found that going outside, being immersed in my thoughts, and writing those ideas on paper were some of the factors that helped me find stability. When I saw the sky, the sun, and the grass from my backyard the first thing that came to my mind was God who created all of these beautiful things for me to feel through my senses. Once I realized how innately exquisite these creations of God were, I did not feel alone. I did not feel like I was in solitude. At that moment, I believed that my body and nature were connected as one. I now …show more content…
Many social networking cites such as: Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook promote the “single life’ as living in an expensive penthouse filled with luxurious clothing. Sadly, they tend to exclude the emotional aspects of being alone. In contrast Transcendentalism teaches people to shy away from the materialistic things and technology, so people can have the ability to grow as an individual alone; not influenced by external forces. Once they develop into their inner self any advancements in the 21st century won’t seem as a necessity anymore, and they will be able to live their lives
In order to find “my intimacy with nature,” I found that going outside, being immersed in my thoughts, and writing those ideas on paper were some of the factors that helped me find stability. When I saw the sky, the sun, and the grass from my backyard the first thing that came to my mind was God who created all of these beautiful things for me to feel through my senses. Once I realized how innately exquisite these creations of God were, I did not feel alone. I did not feel like I was in solitude. At that moment, I believed that my body and nature were connected as one. I now …show more content…
Many social networking cites such as: Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook promote the “single life’ as living in an expensive penthouse filled with luxurious clothing. Sadly, they tend to exclude the emotional aspects of being alone. In contrast Transcendentalism teaches people to shy away from the materialistic things and technology, so people can have the ability to grow as an individual alone; not influenced by external forces. Once they develop into their inner self any advancements in the 21st century won’t seem as a necessity anymore, and they will be able to live their lives