Into The Wild

I received this book from a friend. In short it is about a young man, Christopher McCandless, who wants to live his life traveling but in the end his travels take him to an early demise. Unless maybe you believe in fate, then he died just when he was supposed too.

The book offered a view as to why different people may do some of the things McCandless did. Particularly interesting was the authors own account of climbing the Devil’s Thumb, a peak east of Petersberg Alaska. He does this climb alone and writes about how going solo brings higher highs and lower lows. Its easy to realate too, when in the company of others many things end up muffled.

At one point in the book McCandless encourages a friend to leave his sedentary life and live on the road. I began to think about how many people in this world I will never meet. Based on a few facts (income, residence, etc.) you could create a pretty good idea of who those people are and the places you may never go, how predictably sad. I need a shirt that I could wear on travel, something that says “Odds of Seeing Me Today: 1 in a Million” :P my way of making everyone else feel special. Of course I see myself every day. I need to sell the shirts so I can feel the good vibes.

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