Walden, to live deliberately.

Being a freelance, I have the privilege to work with many different people, from many different background. Always something new to learn, be it the work, or the people I am working with.

I think, the hardest part of working is dealing with people. We can't control how the do, why they do the way the do their work. Well, that makes life then, as in life we deal with people. This reminds me of a writer who deliberately withdraw himself from society, to live in a forest, by himself. That probably was the best decision he has ever made in his life. At least I enjoy reading his experience in Walden.

I was at the edge of my life and a good friend gave me a post it saying "This is your prescription" with this book written there. I rushed to the nearest book store and bought it. From this book I learned to live deliberately rather than desperately. This book has taught me to own my life back, live it the way I want it, not what society expect me to.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. — Henry David Thoreau



A book worth reading.