Blog 6 Into The Wild

1. Alex has a very strong and very different view on life then most people do. Alex sets out on the journey and leaves everything behind and take off into the wild on the hopes of making it to Alaska. He leaves everything behind, EVERYTHING. He burns his money, gets rid of his ID's, and sets off. Alex says, "rather then money, faith, and fairness, give me truth". Alex got accepted into Harvard law school but he has a different idea for what he wants to do with his life. He wants to have nothing but him self and him self being all he can rely on, and that is exactly what he does. Alex also says he doesn't need anything besides "leafs and berries". I somewhat do agree with his idea of not needing all the money and all the perks of life. But I would not like to or be able to do what he did, I don't think many people would be able to. I think that people these days definitely have a lot more then they need, but on the other hand people really do need more the "leafs and berries". It is nice to have a house to live in, running water, heat, food, clothing, and Alex pretty much leaves all of that behind to be one with nature.

2. There are two arguments about what Alex did; some people say its stupid and foolish, others say he is living his life to the fullest. I think that "living life to the fullest" can be polar opposites in different peoples eyes, and that's why the two opinions of Alex's journey are at two different ends of the spectrum. For Alex, yes he was absolutely living his life to the fullest. All Alex wanted to do was to have experience this self-reliance feeling and make it to Alaska, despite not making it and dying, he died living his life to the fullest just the way he wanted it to be. He wanted to find what he thought was the truth. "rather then money, faith, and fairness, give me truth". He found that truth in the wild. The people who think Alex is being foolish aren't seeing the big picture. they say he'll never make it, he'll be back in no time, etc. But that isn't the point of this expedition for Alex. Alex wants to feel alone and have to figure it out on his own, I think the reason why Alex is searching for this "truth" he's looking for is because he had a lot given to him as a child. He rejects a new car his parents tried to give him, because his works just fine. He doesn't need all the "fluff" in life all the money all the cars all the clothes. He doesn't want it. Alex has a great view on life in the sense of greed. And the people who are saying that hes being stupid are just looking over the deeper meaning of what Alex is doing.