Thoreau And Emerson

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do this, is to become timeless like the stream in which he drinks. We must trust our inner most instincts to guide us through this journey of life.

We all experience times in our lives when the world seems like and endless pit of despair. It seems that there is no hope for happiness again. This reminds me of a significant time in my life, a time of fear and despair. It happened a few years ago, I was young and dumb. I got my head and heart all wrapped up in a young woman. At the time, this girl was the world to me. She was everything I always wanted in a woman and more, or so I thought. As time marched on, as it always does, I started to realize that my life was no longer my own. Everything I was doing was to please this one girl. I no longer had my own identity, only a shadow of her. This continued for a while. Finally, one day I realized my life had to change. At this point, I had already given up on a chance to move away to college, I was battling with a severe case of depression, and starting to go a bit further in debt than one would have liked. The realization of all this changed me profoundly. I began to look inside myself. When I did this, I saw a strong young man. A man who could stand on his own two feet. A man who could take on the world w...