The True Meaning Of Life In Walden, By Henry David Thoreau

Living Does anybody know what the true meaning of life in this world or what it takes to be stress free or even to be successful in life? Well a person may ask his or herself these questions because he or she is trying to find the real reason to continue to live in this opinionated world or what is his or her true destiny is in life. In the story, “Walden”, by Henry David Thoreau wrote about the events and thoughts that came to his mind while he was living at Walden Pond. In 1854, Thoreau lived alone in the woods off the shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. While he was living in the woods, he built himself a house with his hands and earn most of his living by doing hand labor. Furthermore, he lived there in the woods for two years …show more content…
When Thoreau lived in the woods he had better outlook on nature, he discovered that people had four necessity in life which are food and, shelter, fuel, and clothing. By having these four necessities in life a person can conserve their energy. Thoreau wants everybody to slow down and reconnect with real time which is nature 's time. By slowing down, people have the time to reevaluate on some things that going on in their life. Also, Thoreau stated in his story that “The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.” This quote by Thoreau is so true because most jobs today don’t value their employees on personal levels of who they are as a person, but only on the business level where the employee can make the business being more successful by bringing in more income to the company. While a person who is working day in and day out will eventually lose their true self and get blinded by having wealth and materialistic things. After the person is blinded by materialism he or she will have trouble to distinguish between what is a luxury in life and what is a necessity in life. Many times, a person will mix these two up because they are trying to justify to themselves what …show more content…
Being an individual is to be unique and being their own self. Everybody in this world has different destiny in life and their own struggles, so why be a copy of somebody else. On the hand, it is great to be inspire by a person and use it to push forward in life but not be a copy to the admiral person. Thoreau stated in his story, “To know what we know what we know, and that we don’t know what we know that is true knowledge.” Everyone in this world can be admired person by having knowledge on something, in which it can turn into wisdom. Thoreau stated that true wisdom come through the experiment of living and that it is out there for everyone to discover in practice. This search for wisdom should not be confused with selfishness. It 's more the development of an inner sense of what is just and right. Since wisdom is unique to everyone, we cannot expect each person 's expression of wisdom to be the same as any others. Every individual express wisdom in an equally unique