Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Thoreau, Henry(1854). Where I Lived, and What I Lived for. In S. Cohen (Ed), 50 Essays (p.403-409)



Thoreau talks about being simple, living with no worries and full leisure. He moves out to live, in a shack, in the woods. Its about living without commitment and he uses this time to write about how we take living for granted and why we don't just live to the fullest. There is no need to rush how we live, to experience everything possible.
While we are at home on the computer connecting with friends and families through social media sites, Thoreau is in the wild interacting and living with mother nature. Are we so caught up with social media that we forget what we should be living for? I feel as is some people feel the need to bind their selves with the social media instead of living for real.