Inspiration or Fool?

"You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we may experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living" (Krakauer 57).

Topic: Finding Happiness

        Happiness can be hard to find, especially in times of sadness, anger, or confusion. However,  Chris McCandless explains how easy it actually is in a letter to Ronald Franz. McCandless, being that he strives to be his own person, his own keeper, gives the advice to Franz, after Franz had told him that he wants him to be his grandson, that he does not need someone else to make him happy. Happiness can be found anywhere, but only if we are brave enough to break the social construct of  approval. The only people we need approval from is ourselves. McCandless speaks in the letter about how scared people are of taking opportunities sometimes because it would mean a lack of security or fear of the unknown. But how are you supposed to know if you do not try for yourself? The only think keeping us from finding happiness is ourselves. Like McCandless said, happiness is in everything and anything around us. It is there, but the only way to be fully aware of this happiness is to emerce yourself into nature and the world around you. Make the world your own. This is your life. Live it.