Where I Lived and What I Lived For

Henry David Thoreau wrote the article “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”; Thoreau wrote this article as a comparison of his life in the woods to ordinary daily life in towns and cities. Thoreau live in cabin on Walden Pond for two years, during his stay in the cabin he kept a journal to keep him occupied and was later published. Thoreau’s intention in living in the woods was to live deliberately, to font only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not.  Thoreau’s idea of living was to eat once a day instead of having three meals a day and to reduce things in proportion. “Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of pretty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even the German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment.” (Thoreau, 2011) was very interesting statement that he used to compare our life in towns and cities and the life in the woods. Thoreau’s point in this essay was to tell us our lives are surrounded by too much restriction. Most of us are afraid to do this that is outside of our comfort zone. I think this essay complements Marie Winn’s essay “Television” The Plug-In Drug that is about how most of us are satisfied with watching television and not spending time with our family. Not exploring the outside world and letting electronics dominate our lives. Thoreau’s argument is very valid, it is true that most of us are to scared to go to a place that we are not familiar with, we like to live in a place where things are just handed to us. Such as, we can go to the grocery store to buy a week worth of food. In the other hand we need to enjoy life and do things out of our comfort zone.