Wilderness, car life and free world--read "Walden Pond on Wheels"

Spent three days reading the "Walden on the Wheels" (Walden on Wheels), enjoy the fun. Maybe you still stay or linger in 19th century, American writer Henry? David? Thoreau's masterpiece, "Walden Pond," a beautiful and quiet chapter, and time Flash, now is the flow of information in the 21st century.

The "Walden Pond on the Wheel" by the contemporary American Gen Y writer Ken? Written by Ignus. By trying to explore a low-cost consumption lifestyle through an isolated "car-Habitat" test, the protagonist is deeply honored by his spiritual mentor, Thoreau, by unloading a heavy debt burden and looking for a spiritual world that leads to the path to freedom.

Read this book, you will be amazed at the contemporary American and Chinese grass-roots youth living situation is so similar: graduation is unemployed, with the weight of the house, car, money and work, be involved in the vortex of reality can not pant, engrossed to better jobs, income, more wealth, fame and fortune, to achieve greater so-called "success." Once in the heart of the picture of the beautiful ideal country, in the face of the weary reality gradually fade away, fuzzy crush.

Whose youth has never been lost.

When the young people of China appear weak and impetuous in the predicament of ideal and reality, evade complaining and even have to chew the old, the American youth on the other side of the ocean has gone from the age of 18 to independence--if you continue to study undergraduate, Master Bo graduate students, must rely on their own, self-reliance. After graduating from high school, the hero Ken? Ignus left his parents to read the New York State University Buffalo by lending to the American college loan Company "Shalime". Like other ordinary American college students, he has a high debt of $32000 on his 2006-year graduation.

Looking around for a wall of jobs. When he was in the supermarket day by day mechanical boring part-time trolley work, feel the extreme of imprisonment, repression and pain, the heart of freedom and * * Yearning is growing, a few want to break the shell out. But the heavy debt was like a chain of shackles, imprisoned to drive him in the workplace.

How to balance the contradiction between the two?

"I wish I could ' subtract ' from my needs and avoid losing my keen insight. I do not want to be swallowed up by a strong culture, numb to the rules, the external imposition of ideas as their own desire to pursue. "He had a deep dialogue with himself in his heart.

He refuses to live a dull, unchanging life, refusing to be "silent and desperate" like most people. Alaska walking, as if he opened a path to the freedom of the spirit of the skylight, ignited Prometheus "steal" The hope of fire, for the "wilderness" of infinite aspirations and yearning, driving him to the endless journey of the Arctic.

In order to pay off the huge debt, the hero Ken? Ignus experienced such a rich and adventurous work and travel experience: Supermarket trolley workers, Alaska State frozen feet town cleaners, kitchen workers, tour guides, Yukon Riverside Garbage Workers, Canada Ontario Prov. "Boatman", took backpackers, Mississippi State Harbor City Volunteer Scavenger, "The Gate of the Arctic" National Park Patrol Mountain staff, Colorado State Denver Express small brother ...

In the book, you can read the detailed, vivid and rich contemporary American youth Life Hundred States, but also can enjoy the colorful, gorgeous charm of the Arctic light, steep xiongqi, Scenery Unlimited, awe-inspiring beauty of the mountains, more able to chew the protagonist of the frustration of the impatient, part-time job debt bitterness bitter spicy, wilderness trek, "retro" All kinds of hardships and setbacks of sailing experience ...

All kinds of extraordinary experiences have achieved the courage of the Fearless "brave". Debt is slowly repaid, "freedom" beckons to the protagonist, but Ken? Ignus did not realize the feeling of complete ease of liberation. The humanities children began to ponder the ultimate goal and significance of life. He realized that paying off the loan was not tantamount to getting real freedom, what he had been searching for was not a well-paid, perfect job, a life of fame and wealth, but a continual self-improvement and self-transcendence.

He intends to return to school, some hard work, Ken? Ignus was lucky enough to have been admitted to Duke University's Graduate School of Humanities, but he never wanted to borrow. By imitating Thoreau's "Walden" style of life, he began a "car habitat" day on campus, "big faint in the city", the final "0 debt" completed the postgraduate professional courses.

"Walden Pond" is not so much the symbol and label that people put on the life of seclusion, but rather it is the "break away" of the material world which the practitioners deeply planted in the heart. Thoreau said in Walden: "I find in my heart that I have an instinct to pursue a higher life, or to explore the spiritual world." He claims that his "greatest skill is the need for little".

Hero Ken? Ignus and his spiritual mentor Thoreau in the dialogue and practice, will be to the material needs and desires to the minimum, will be "more simple, more free" practices for today's society a new possibility. "This society always distinguishes between poverty and affluence with the amount of personal possessions. ...... People always want to get more things, and often feel dissatisfied with what they already have, whether the salary, the comfort of life or whether the demand is met, the desire will never disappear. "If people always hold this view, they will never get out of poverty." Thoreau is convinced that "if people are willing to live simply and wisely, it is not a chore but a pastime to make a living in this world." ”

With your own life experience as a rich material, Ken? Ignus write the text of the real sense, flesh and blood, full of temperature and texture, everywhere shining wisdom and rational humanism light. He was so fond of nature that he began to be wary of the city, wary of the deplorable effects of their fine pretensions on people and their place of residence. The world in the envy of others under the eyes of dissipation, gradually left behind the real character and firm ideas, and he has "no longer succumb to the prevailing trend, no longer blindly follow the values of others," the personal growth and the fate of the future has given unlimited possibilities. After graduating from Duke University, he became a travel writer, continuing to outline the wilderness with his feet and continue to record life, explore himself, and explore freedom. He had been walking on the road, and he had told people in his own hands:

If you were to worship the consumerism church,

The ever-changing fashion guru must always be enshrined.

But freedom is different,

It is a pair of sincere eyes,

A healthy physique,

A burst of cheerful laughter.

The tide of popularity rises and falls,

Freedom is constant.

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Wilderness, car life and free world--read "Walden Pond on Wheels"