While I was exploring the blogger page, feeding the hungry and laughing at the picture of the ninja squirrel, I came across the link for the quotes of the day and the last one intrigued me. It said:
“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it”(Rita Mae Brown).
It seems that Chris McCandless was aware of this. He was finally done pleasing everyone else, and wanted to get away, like the adventurers in his books. He wanted to live on the land, to fend for himself, to go out sock-less! His life was so planned and so precise and that wasn’t how he wanted to live. He read books that gave him hope to a world of adventure and self-fulfillment. A world where he was in charge and he could be free from his metaphorical cage, sheltering him from the magnificent world at his disposal. He was like a canon, building up all these ideas and conceptions that were held in so long, it was about time they all exploded out, the only warning was the lit fuse.
He had an intense thirst for adventure, that led him to do all of the crazy, unpredictable things that he had done. A couple weeks ago, Mrs. Fletcher was talking about how some people don’t have a fear receptor, which is what makes people get scared, like if someone popped a balloon, most people would flinch, or even shriek, but the people that don’t have the same brain functions that we do, wouldn’t get scared. It was brought up that perhaps he didn’t feel fear. I don’t believe this is true, but I do believe that he wanted to feel the excitement that oh so often goes along with fear. Its those butterflies you get in your stomach that some people love and others despise. He wanted those butterflies and I believe that he fought his brain that told him to be scared. He did things that he has never done before, that even experts are skeptical about, like white water kayaking and battling the Alaskan wildlife alone .
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