"Where I Lived and What I Lived For” By Henry David Thoreau

In this essay, David Thoreau spoke of how it is a good idea not to go with the stream. He wrote about how the truly important, and fundamentals of life are the things everyone takes for granted. He uses examples of humans wasting their time and life on things like the post office, and telegraphs. He thought that everyone would live better and happier if they truly embraced what it meant to live deliberately. He thought that simplifying the life we live to a more "Spartan-like" life would be more beneficial. He felt like the world around him was very shallow and superficial. He thought people should not choose to live upset,  and not let issues over take their lives.

I think that this is a very popular way of thinking. I think Thoreau saw society going down a road that would eventually lead to where we are now. It seems like we as humans have strayed very far from our natural way of existing. Suddenly, we not only live are own lives, and dealing with our own issues, but we can now see other people's problems with social networking. I think that the way of life Thoreau spoke of is nearly impossible to have now. There are too many distractions, and too many superficial creations that are slowly taking over our way of living to truly suck out the marrow of life.