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All Of The Marrow Of Life, By Henry David Thoreau
To get the most you can out of life you have to break it down into the necessities in life. Rather than complicating life, make it simple to enjoy the little things. When Thoreau wrote “I wanted to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life,” he was demonstrating what he felt towards the idea of life (Walden 114). If one lives life the same and has many distractions in life, one will not enjoy the simple things in life and admire life from a different perspective like nature. For me, school stresses me and I always seem to have something on my mind. I never take a moment and enjoy life without worrying about something else. On days of stress, I try to go on a run or sit outside on my porch and look out upon the tranquil lake that sits
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