Last few days I was reading the book ,'Into the wild' by John Krakauer.. The adventrous story of 23yr old young man,Christopher McCandless who left his home for an expedition into the mountaineous Alaska without a single penny in his hand...He was in search of the meaning of his life..away from the societal concepts of success and acceptability....And alone, he walked into wild...lived in the wild and in the end died in the wild...Wildly....
In the life we seldom seek real experiences...we seek experiences which comes as new lines in a CV or in a linkedin profile or as new job porition or as new educational qualification....We forget ask to ourselves, is it the experience I have longed for...? And we continue to the rat race...(Somebody said, who ever wins the ratrace, is still a rat...)
Evethough tragic in the end,the book was a great inspiration for whosoever thinks liberally in a world so much entangled with donot's and shouldn'ts...One can easily see a parallel between McCandless's Mind and the mind of Thoreu, who left his home and lived in a forest near a pond and came up with most lovely creation ...the Walden....
Highly recommended...(Sometimes we may get a little horrified by the end.....Then that thought will come to us...One day One day , even Barack Obama have to die...)
The book had a good collection of very nice quotes...The link is here..http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1235.Jon_Krakauer
But I felt moved by the quote which I put as tiltle of this note...
"Career's is a 20th Century Invention, and I don't want one!"...
This is the bus where he had surpassed his last horrifying moments
Praveen P
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