Blog #4: To live deliberately........

Living in nature with only yourself and the resources around you would definitely be a challenge.  Look at our world today, we surround ourselves playing games, texting, using the computer and watching tv.  Thoreau did have a good idea, "I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach."  Living in a cabin by yourself in the woods, I think is a good way to learn about yourself and how live life slowly to its fullest.  I think it's very important to live in the now and take every chance and experience you can get.  I know when I go camping, I forget about home and wish to  just stay there because it is fun.  I love staying in tents, having campfires, wandering through the woods.  I love just taking in that world and enjoying every minute of it, sometimes I just want to go back home.  I couldn't live out in the woods for a long time though, only because I can't live without certain things in my life.  Such things including my phone, the computer, and tv. 

If I had to make the choice of living in a cabin with no technological devices, only me and nature, I don't know if i could do it.  On the surface, I feel like I could do it, but deep down, I feel like there would have to be at least one day I would have to look at my phone or go on the internet. 

Although, I do know what is like, living withough a cell phone not being able to talk to anyone.  I know most people need thier phones to talk to people or text.  I forgot my charger at home and when I was here at school, my phone died.  I couldn't use my phone for like a week, it was so tough.  It was definitely an eye opener, I was more social with my friends when I wasn't texting.  It was tough yes, but living without a phone for a week definitely turned things upside down.  I did a lot more social things, and it felt good to not carry my phone at my hip all the time.  That is what Thoreau is trying to say, I feel like.  That try something new and different, live without your luxury, "mechanical aid" he said, and live without your necessities of life, see how different and fulfulling your world will be. 

That is what we should all experience, a life full of experience and slow it down a little.  Take everything in.  "why should we live with such hurry and wast of life." Thoreau said.  It seems like everytime some new game or iPad type thing, or new phone comes out, it seems like people need to have it; so they go out and buy it right away.  They hurry to try the new fad or trend.  Why not take it one day at a time, who cares about hurrying to get the new iPhone, or get the new technology out for people to use.  We waste our lives away playing with our new toys.  Why not go outside make the day last longer, go camping, skydiving, or rockclimbing.  Go live in a cabin for a few weeks with only your friends.  I think it would be a blast and you could say you've done that when no one else has.  It would definitely be an eye opener. 

Emerson in a somewhat confusing way, in his own way, is saying almost the same thing as Thoreau.  In that we need to experience our natural world, "ablsove you to yourself."  I also feel that he does have a good point in that "I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."  Do what you want to do, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.  If you want to go bungee jumping off a bridge, go do it, experience it for yourself, don't let your peers tell you it's too dangerous.  I live like that sometimes, as bad as that sounds.  I go do crazy stuff with people and when I tell that story to people, they look at me like i'm nuts.