Monday, February 20, 2017

Walden Part Two

       I had to finish the entire book to get to the end and unfortunately that took me forever, this book is not exactly a page turner, and I have also had a crazy week. Anyhow, the second half of the book was a little less enthralling than the first but I got through it finally. The beginning of The Pond in Winter poses an interesting question, well to question at all, the human condition. Thoreau says, "but there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face, and no question on her lips." Serene and satisfied, some things almost no human can keep for long but are always wishing for.
       Those things could be interpreted as happiness and that is the eternal goal for humans and therefore something we will never get to because we are always aiming that way. "Nature puts no question, and answers none which we morals ask." This statement also elaborates on that which humans have to struggle, constantly.
       We often think to question is a blessing or a gift because we know better but that is so far from the truth, in my perspective because there is no moral truth in my perspective but I can go on with this for hours due to my brain and stuff, because when have you thought that an animal did wrong? They are creatures of instinct, told by their evolutionary past and therefore there is not much to be wrong about as long as they are surviving and reproducing.

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