Living The Walden Experience
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Living The Walden Experience
Living The Walden Experience: Pond Experience
Thoreau is best known for his Walden experiment during which he lived as a recluse in the woods of Walden near his native Concord, Massachusetts. This assignment allowed me to experience the same liberty Thoreau experienced while performing his quest for self-liberty. I took my own pond experience traveling to a new place in my life, a place I had never visited before.
I sat isolated near a pond for two hours, just sitting there, no writing, reading, talking or any form of communication. I just thought, and left my life conflicts behind. I did a lot of thinking; I got deep into all my thoughts and ideas. I never knew I could understand the complicated ideas I had. I never realized what every memory meant to my life.
Sitting there made me realize how free life is, a sense of ease filled my body. I experienced a feeling I had never felt before. I just seemed to leave behind all my worries, and troubles. I escaped the intimate everyday lifestyle and exhibited a new form of life. I discovered bits and pieces about myself which I never knew. I found my inner self and found an odd passion for nature. This was a new feeling; I had never before enjoyed nature as much as I did this day. I began to relate to Thoreau's message, the message of self-knowledge, and how that is one of the essential ingredients to fulfilling happiness.
The sense was amazing, freedom was present, a freedom never experienced before. I doubt I would have been able to sit near a pond, without caring what other people around me thought about me. I may be called crazy, an outcast, maybe even a loner however, everyone has to be a loner at one time or another, despite how popular they are anywhere else. Being assigned a pond experience, as part of the time-consuming essay, was extraordinary. A nature experience was a new way to be taught a message, hidden in a book.
Obtaining such...
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