What do we really live for?

Thoreau.(2011). Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.  In S. Cohen, 50 Essays (pg. 403-409). Boston: Bedford St. Martins.

The essay "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" by Henry David Thoreau shows us, his arguments on living in the woods. One of the ideas he brought up is reducing things into proportion, meaning to reduce our time on useless habits and spend it on more useful things. Another point he adds is that we can live without a post office or any forms of communication. When we hear about robberies, murders, and other crimes, we don't read on and see another, because on is enough. This is just gossip to spread around. We think of great and worthy things in reality, and not the fears that shadow us. The lies that we live in can be revealed from the shadows and shows other people to see who people really are.

To be honest some of Thoreau's ideas were hard to translate, but others were easy to see. I see ideas in this essay that are connected to social media, like in the first on I stated. Connecting the idea of reducing things into proportions, going on the social media is a waste of time where it won't help you progress your life. Let's be honest too, when we see a lot of these news articles on the media, we really don't react, but simply ignore it and move on with our lives. This brings us to the thought that when you read these types of articles, you think that this won't happen to you while in reality, anything can happen. Living in lies like these can block your vision of what's real and what's not. Even pretending to be someone that your not on the media can lead to labeling you for life.