"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more..."
--Lord Byron
I just watched "Into the Wild" and I was absolutely enthralled. Words cannot explain how much I loved this movie. There is a scene about halfway in that literally brought tears to my eyes, when the main character is jumping off of a cliff into a lake and running with wild horses. This brings to mind the quote by Thoreau: "The best things in life are wild and free."
Is this true? I look at my own life and never have I ever felt completely wild and free. I have yet to experience that total lack of control, to the point where you let yourself go and start to really live.
Am I going in the right direction to get there? I sure hope so. But when am I ever sure of things?
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