My Life In Walden By Henry David Thoreau

Technology can have many pros and cons in life. It can simplify your life and yet make it even more complicated than it actually is. Anywhere you go, you see someone with some piece of technology in their hands from cell phones, to tablets, and even computers. In today’s society there is not only technology in office buildings, but today more and more schools are changing to all laptops and less paper or more likely known as one to one learning or blended learning. The schools that are changing to one to one learning are distancing themselves from others and taking on a new path to succeed. In the excerpt Walden by Henry David Thoreau it says “ that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” (Thoreau 389). What Walden is trying to say is that those who follow the steps to achieve will have an outcome that shows success. Walden had success in his journey of isolating himself and living in the wilderness, …show more content…
It shows me how much time is productive or wasted through cell phones, and computers. In my personal experience I could see whether or not I could take time out of my life without using a source of technology. I never realized how much I used my cell phone. From the time I go to bed with my alarm clock set for six in the morning to using it to communicate with friends, but not just my cell phone the computer too. Using computers in school has been helpful, I feel more organized because everything is in one place and it makes life easier. Also you have less papers which creates less of a problem for those who are disorganized, and you have the teacher websites which has all the documents on it from worksheets to class notes for those who want to look at them again or was absent that day. Although having technology in school can have its positives and also have