I am currently reading the book "Into the Wild". This has been shown in the cinema and it's already out on DVDs and VCDs. Havent finished reading the book yet so I cannot give you any review. But first chapter already hit me as I wasn't aware of the story. Hehehe I always buy books because of only three reasons - the novel is written by the famous author I know, recommended by a friend or it's on the best seller shelf of the bookstores I frequent. And no, I don't read much that back part of the book before I buy it to keep the element of surprise. :D Anyway, all I know about this book when I first started it was that there was this guy who abandoned all his belongings, gave all his money to charity and wander off to travel. I didn't know he died just four months after that. :( It was really sad for me. He was still young and just graduated with honors who came from a well-off family but choose to live a nomad life. I thought it was a stupid thing to do to choose a decision in your life putting yourself at risk. I thought at first that if I were to have that life he had, I would certainly be in law school, graduate with honors and do pro bono cases or spend my remaining time helping out on some refugee camps who were always short of people and money to help them with. But that's just me. And I'm not sure about what I just said because I might be doing something differently with that life.
People's reactions are subjective. We think differently when we are out of the box and retort to things otherwise when we are on that certain spot. It's like that story of the three men who were given each a bar of gold - one buried it in case he needed it, one spend it like there's no tomorrow and one who took the risk of using the gold and invest it and made it earn. We were told a lot of times how the latter is better than the two. Some of us may agree since it is the logical thing to do. But we are who we are because of the decisions we made in our life. We don't let other people run our own life just because they think sensibly and their life is better than ours. We might follow their footsteps and live their life but still feels miserable in the end. It is your life after all. No matter what others may think, it will still be your happiness and the gratification you will achieve. In a simple and shallow explanation, it's like buying that stunning dress worn by a famous actress or models we just read from a magazine and ends up looking stupid. There were finer things in this world that suits exactly of who you are and your personality and ends up feeling total bliss even in that cheap dress. Now, I think I better get back to my reading. :D
