Thoreau Your Money Away

Right away, I was a little thrown off when Thoreau stated that, though others may think his "model of life" was impertinent, he found it "very natural and pertinent." It made me think of this very pretentious person I once knew, who didn't know that he was pretentious. But I may have only thought about that because pertinent and pretentious are both fancy words that start with p. So I looked up the word "impertinent"... just to be clear.

Don't judge me.

The clearest definition I found was this:


Impertinence: exceeding the bounds of propriety. 

Then I looked up propriety.

Propriety: the state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals.


Mk. So I was right. People thought he was being douche-ily unconventional for the sake of it and Thoreau's all, "Naw, I'm being myself. It's cool, man."


ANYWAY. 


one very famous quote from page 847

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

Holly balls. Basically, he's just challenged my entire life. We're so busy fighting and fighting for... something, that  we lose sight of the true meaning within our battles. I'm a solid procrastinator and a ridiculously busy person. I'm currently involved in three shows, working two jobs, balancing two majors, and failing to keep up with my homework. What oftentimes tends to happen is that I'll eventually get so desperately busy and behind that, instead of fighting to the finish, I give up. This can be summarized in pictures in this wickedly awesome and honest blog:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html

ANYWAY.

After reading this very famous quote, I looked to see what Thoreau actually suggests we do.

But I never got time to finish reading. Would you call that irony? Not sure.

Good thing we had a great class discussion about the true necessities of life. Ways to simplify our lives to focus on God. Like don't own/buy so much stuff. Or don't try to juggle 3 plays, two jobs, and two majors.

The end!