Existentialism In Walden

My mother flew into a raging fury. She threw books and knocked items off the desk in my room while screaming til her face turned red; meat cleaver in her right hand, left hand in a fist. “Nǐ xiǎng sǐ ma?” Do you want to die? My brother was in his bedroom, located one floor down. My father was in his bedroom, located a few doors down. What was Hell for me was silence for others. For them this was the usual occurance that played over day by day. I remember this memory like it was yesterday, though they happened almost 7 years ago. “If you don’t want me, then I’ll just run away!”, those were the comforting words that I repeated. They were the words I weeped, I breathed, and the words I dreamed.
“We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia 's Chair, far from noise and disturbance.” (Thoreau 72). If I could the bane of my desires were conceptualized within a single quote, that would be that quote; as Henry David Thoreau wrote in …show more content…
Thoreau teaches us we must find enlightenment within ourselves and reach spiritual equilibrium in the root of our existence, our essence of life. Yet, we are made to think will reach enlightenment by reading the words of a man who existed centuries ago. Even so, I learned to discover my own spiritual enlightenment years ago.
In Thoreau’s Walden, he said “We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia 's Chair, far from noise and disturbance.” (Thoreau 72). My mother once asked me if I wanted to die. To her question, I respond now,”No, I don’t want to die, but I want to be liberated of the pains that make me want to die. To escape to a celestial corner beyond Cassiopeia’s Chair; I want to exist with existence itself and be released from the vice grip of desolation. I wish to live freely. That is what I live for; to lead a simpler