Narrative Essay On Into The Wild

I look down from above and see myself seated in front of a stage. “Angelica Castanon!” I hear someone call. I see as I walk up the stairs and get onto the platform. My mind meld with my body and suddenly I’m on the stage. I look out at the lights, blinding me for a split second and suddenly I feel like I’m crashing down with insecurity and fear for my unknown future. What if I’m unprepared for college and get too stressed and fail all my classes and I’m not able to get back up on my feet? Then I look down in the seats and see all the people who came, who have supported me in my schoolwork, and who have high hopes for my future. They are the ones that remind me that I can do anything I want, there is nothing to stop me. They are the ones who …show more content…
My classmates around me knew what they wanted. They wanted to be doctors and firefighters and teachers. But me? I had no clue what I was interested in. However there was one thing that I was sure of. I did not want to sit alone at a desk, I wanted to work with other people and share ideas on what method would be the best to get the job done. In Into the Wild, at the end while Chris is dying he is reflecting on how life was for him he says “Happiness only real when shared.” When he says this he is dying alone and I think has regret of not having someone with him to experience his last moments with. However I do not believe that he would have been happy growing old and dying in a hospital with his loved ones either. One thing to notice about when he says the quote is that we only know he thought it because he wrote in down in his journal. However by that point he was very weak but he felt it was important enough to make sure he gave his message to the world. This relates to my idea of fulfillment because I know I am happier completing a task if I have the right people by my side who help me and I help them, and at the end we can celebrate in completing the task together. This relates to my current path of becoming a college counselor because often counselors have to work together with many people, be it teachers, parents, and even the student. It’s going to be a group effort and I need to make sure I have the …show more content…
They think that because there are countless examples of successful people who didn’t graduate and there are many college grads who are unemployed and in debt. I agree that for some people college might just be unnecessary in order to reach their goals. Maybe they just want to get a certificate that’s related to their job and get right to work. However, I believe that in order that I get fulfillment in my life, I need to go to college and study about the subjects that interest me most, sociology and cognitive science. My personal evidence comes from when I took a sociology class over the summer and sat in on a cognitive science class. When I don’t like classes it’s because I don’t find the material interesting enough to want to do the work for it. However in my sociology class I was just so immersed in what we were learning and it felt fun to do a research essay. In addition with the cognitive science class I felt sad to leave it because it brought up so many questions that I wanted answered. Now Chris McCandless when talking about college was said to have thought of ,”titles and honors as immaterial and irrelevant. Later he would say that university is a 20th century fad and not something to aspire to.” I disagree with Chris because he says university is a 20th century fad yet here we are in the 21st century and it’s still going strong. This is because university allows people to study the subjects they care most