Into the Wild

Yesterday evening I sat down to watch Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandless who after graduating from Emory University here in Atlanta in 1990, gave his life savings ($24,000) to charity and abandoned all of his worldly possessions and headed north to Alaska.
Oh what the hell, go read about his life here. Too much to type here.
Seeing this film brought back from the dead a long-lived desire to do exactly the same thing; abandon my modern life and go live off the land, free of society’s constraints and the dependency on other people to live. That was exactly what I was going to do after I graduated from High School thirteen years ago. I had planned on heading North to Canada or Alaska, even Colorado or Wyoming, in search of a place where my nearest neighbor would be a month’s hike. I had been a loner my whole life and wanted nothing more than to just be… alone.
I was a Chris McCandless at one point in my life, but I never took that first step into the unknown. Although I am happy where I am in life, sharing it with someone I love and in a career that allows me to be the creative person I am, part of me deep down still feels the need to abandon from time to time. I would love nothing more than to be able to take off for a year and just live alone, off the land… free, taking notes and writing of my adventures so I could come back later and compile them all into a book.
Maybe some day.

Originally posted 2009-06-20 07:13:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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