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Looking forward to the trip in May.
Laos & Malaysia it shall be!
Less than a month more!!
Awesome.
This trip shall not be hampered by any fear of the paranormal whatsoever.
Mccandless wouldn't have thought about that.
Or he'd decided to coexist with them.

This is an inspiring book.
It isn't a conclusion derived from being shallow & impressionable.
It's only a reaffirmation of what's intended to be done in one's life, shall be done.
(Perhaps even at the expense of this very abstract 'matter' which deems everything possible)
I'm not Alexander Supertramp. Neither am I Mccandless.
He made the most of his very brief life - I assume. (Or is that simply based on the media's preoccupation with sensationalization & glorification of people posthumously?) I though, am not sure if I've got his will.
Nonetheless it is an envy-worthy fact that he passed on in nature.
I'm not going to go on about what I think of his life or this book.
That'd simply be added to a heap of afterthoughts and critiques which many have seen themselves as being worthy of expressing (which in fact I hardly agree with this intrusion of individual autonomy - grieving parents or otherwise, so any vehement assertion outside of the 'self' is really nothing but mere rant). I read this book as a biography.
That's that, but don't infer it as a lack of interest as a result of egocentricity. Some personal views shared, I perceive, would never be of interest to anyone else, thus there isn't any point in writing.
So I'm going to be the same age at which he died, very soon.
It's then really essential to rethink life, or matter-of-factly let it slip away.
2 decades have silently gone by, as with most of my dear peers.
Just asking, how is "getting by" so attractive?
Is there nothing beyond the food, new clothes, shopping experiences, parties, clubs, work, school, deadlines...?
This abstract "matter" is getting increasingly abstract.
It's distancing itself & it's only a matter of time before it spirals out of grasp.
If wayfaring is therapeutic, then it's simply not enough at this rate.