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classictj 's review for:
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
The story is about a dog named Buck that goes from a tame life with human masters to living in the harsh Alaska frontier with a wild wolf pack. This is a great book and the 3rd time I have read it over the years, and each time is teaches me something different.
Each day he learned more about his new life. How to sleep in the snow, how to relate to the other dogs, and his new relationship with his human masters. Lastly, he learned the cost of failure was death, and was resolved never to fall. He also learned the value of loyalty, love, and freedom.
We all have a calling in life, but we let life take us along the path of least resistance while we look for comfort and ease. This laziness is not who we really are (or not who I really am) and is a discomfort we experience in our souls, just like Buck.
I spent my life on auto pilot and trying to make my family life as comfortable as possible, but once that comfort was put in jeopardy, I realized what I was meant to do and who I really was. I was not meant to live in a corporate life doing the same thing every day, with little impact to the world. The comforts I surrounded myself with were not really comforts at all, but were tinny stresses in my life that when added together created huge problems. I always wanted to make a difference, even if that difference will only effect me, and its time for a change.
The journey of Buck from the quite life to who he was meant to be was hard and full of pain and suffering. It’s a journey that only the strong and determined can survive. But this is how life is designed, and how it is for some, and how it should be for me.
Each day he learned more about his new life. How to sleep in the snow, how to relate to the other dogs, and his new relationship with his human masters. Lastly, he learned the cost of failure was death, and was resolved never to fall. He also learned the value of loyalty, love, and freedom.
We all have a calling in life, but we let life take us along the path of least resistance while we look for comfort and ease. This laziness is not who we really are (or not who I really am) and is a discomfort we experience in our souls, just like Buck.
I spent my life on auto pilot and trying to make my family life as comfortable as possible, but once that comfort was put in jeopardy, I realized what I was meant to do and who I really was. I was not meant to live in a corporate life doing the same thing every day, with little impact to the world. The comforts I surrounded myself with were not really comforts at all, but were tinny stresses in my life that when added together created huge problems. I always wanted to make a difference, even if that difference will only effect me, and its time for a change.
The journey of Buck from the quite life to who he was meant to be was hard and full of pain and suffering. It’s a journey that only the strong and determined can survive. But this is how life is designed, and how it is for some, and how it should be for me.