Thoreau doesn’t believe in the news or the mail system. He believes that always paying attention to the news of things around him will blind an individual from himself and keep him in the dark. He also writes about how he has “never received more than one or two letters that were worth the postage.” (254) Henry David Thoreau left the woods for the same reason that he arrived. He believed that he learned all that he could from the situation and in order to avoid consistency he was going to open a new chapter in his life and see what he learns from the new path. He learned that the world follows so much tradition and conformity, which he did not want to participate in. One of the most important things that he learned from living in the woods was that “if one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams… he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” In other words if someone works are hard as they can they will always be successful and they will be capable of putting the past behind them and embracing the
Thoreau doesn’t believe in the news or the mail system. He believes that always paying attention to the news of things around him will blind an individual from himself and keep him in the dark. He also writes about how he has “never received more than one or two letters that were worth the postage.” (254) Henry David Thoreau left the woods for the same reason that he arrived. He believed that he learned all that he could from the situation and in order to avoid consistency he was going to open a new chapter in his life and see what he learns from the new path. He learned that the world follows so much tradition and conformity, which he did not want to participate in. One of the most important things that he learned from living in the woods was that “if one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams… he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” In other words if someone works are hard as they can they will always be successful and they will be capable of putting the past behind them and embracing the