In Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau describes how he

lives his life simply and believes that this is the key to living life to the fullest.

However, I found while reading the passage that his outlook on living out ones life

seemed to me to have both its high points as well as its low points. At first I

thought that Thoreau was trying to conform people to his way of life. However,

the more I read the more I began to understand the point that Thoreau was trying

to get across. He wasn't trying to make people be like him , he was merely giving

his own life as an example of how not to live in such a rush to be like others and

try to do more than is necessary to enjoy oneself. He preached not of conformity,

but of individuality, and believed living simply and worrying only of pleasing

oneself was the key to living life to the absolute fullest. The debate that this arises

here is what is to be considered doing more than necessary to be happy. There are

a few aspects that Thoreau deals with in Walden that I found to be important in the

discussion of living ones life. These main points are work, study, and individual

n of work he points out that he tried jobs such as

fullest has nothing to do with what might be accepted or not accepted in society,

to disagree with his view on this. I think that technological advancements are

went to the woods because he "wished to live deliberately".(835) He feels that by

that I don't understand about Thoreau. He is so educated yet he lives his life in

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