Thursday, September 29, 2011
Fighting for whats real.
I believe I am the type of person that could live in a shack in the middle of the woods. I'm not saying I really want to or that it would be fun or exciting; however I think that it would be interesting to find out who you really are as a person and what it feels like as thoreau said, "to back life into a corner." I am the type of person that hates most of the technology that consumes our generation's lives. I don't play video games, don't watch much t.v. that often, and I have the most basic phone you can buy. So I wouldn't want to take a trip to the woods and be secluded from the world for a year to get away from technology, because it doesn't consume my life. I would want to take that trip to get away from the technology and materialistic items that affect my and everyone else's life in general. What would it be like without my ipod, phone, car, t.v? Most of these items people take for granted, even I take them for granted. To truly find the raw meaning of existence and find out whats real inside you is having nothing by your side. To be excluded from everything you once knew and to be placed by yourself in a remote area. The more I think about it, maybe there is a part in me or in all of us that we don't even really know. Maybe there is this real person or real meaning to life that we haven't even met, because we never had the opportunity to. So my question I guess is, if you were placed in a shack in a remote area with nothing but yourself, would you find the lost person you really are, the "real" you?
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It would be the longest year of your life, for sure. But I'm sure you'd learn something about yourself, you can only sit and twiddle your thumbs for so long.
ReplyDeleteI think its hard to find ones true self without seeing how it reacts in a public location, you cant fight for what you think is right, if theres no one around to hear your voice, and it would be hard to take that "real" self and produce it in the real world.
ReplyDeleteI really like your question at the end because it did make me think as to weather or not there was the "real me" deep down. I like to think that I shouldn't have to seclude myself to find it, but maybe it would make it easier. I do, also, believe that people do take their technology for granted. We can contact someone on a whim or look up information in a few minutes.We don't think about how lucky we are to be able to have this technology availible to us. I think it would be hard for most people, even if they don't use much technology, to get away like he did. Mainly because I think people would miss the company of others. But maybe it should be taken away from us for a bit so we can learn to appriciate it and not throw it away as quickly as we bought it.
ReplyDeleteI believe that you can find your true self even in our hectic society. Sure it may be easier to if you were secluded but I kinda think those around you make you the person you really are sometimes. Art, music, culture these things help you find your true self and morals you cant get that when you isolate yourself.
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