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brooklynne93 's review for:
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
life changing…
reading this book is definitely something i consider an accomplishment and i’m very glad i can say that i have done it. i think this is because it’s not a book you can read passively. you have to dedicate your entire mind to each and every word. i think i understood about 85% of what he was putting across, i think due to the gaping generation gap between us and the fact that he’s a whole lot smarter than i am. i’m sure that in my life i will read it many more times, or at least the first half and conclusion.
i will say the last half isn’t as good as the first, but the conclusion picked it back up again. the biographical sketch by emerson was really beautiful and i did cry at the end. i can’t wait to read more of thoreaus work. i will keep this with at my bed like some do a bible, and it is far more deserving.
simplify, simplify, simplify. this is my main take away. as much as i would love to free myself from my possessions and my vices, i’m not sure i ever could. but i know i can subtract from my own viewpoint and perceptions of my life. i hope from now on i can stop looking for what’s missing and look upon what i have. there isn’t any reason to want for a shorter walk to campus or to be free of a long class, because i can walk and i can enjoy that time in my day if i simply choose to. every day is better than being dead, and i know that thoreau lived more in his short life than anyone else ever has.
“the fault-finder will find fault even in paradise. love your life”
reading this book is definitely something i consider an accomplishment and i’m very glad i can say that i have done it. i think this is because it’s not a book you can read passively. you have to dedicate your entire mind to each and every word. i think i understood about 85% of what he was putting across, i think due to the gaping generation gap between us and the fact that he’s a whole lot smarter than i am. i’m sure that in my life i will read it many more times, or at least the first half and conclusion.
i will say the last half isn’t as good as the first, but the conclusion picked it back up again. the biographical sketch by emerson was really beautiful and i did cry at the end. i can’t wait to read more of thoreaus work. i will keep this with at my bed like some do a bible, and it is far more deserving.
simplify, simplify, simplify. this is my main take away. as much as i would love to free myself from my possessions and my vices, i’m not sure i ever could. but i know i can subtract from my own viewpoint and perceptions of my life. i hope from now on i can stop looking for what’s missing and look upon what i have. there isn’t any reason to want for a shorter walk to campus or to be free of a long class, because i can walk and i can enjoy that time in my day if i simply choose to. every day is better than being dead, and i know that thoreau lived more in his short life than anyone else ever has.
“the fault-finder will find fault even in paradise. love your life”