‘Post’ Title: Travel Anywhere As Long As It’s Forward
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“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past” (Krakauer 2).
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Topic: The Dynamics of Family.
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Here, it can be said that there is an inherent problem in society, in that people somehow blame themselves for the indiscretions of those around them both family as well as friends. Chris McCandless is one such individual who based his self-worth largely on the amount of love he received from his family. First, his mother and father both worked a lot during his early years. Here it is clear that this lack of attention on his parent’s part affected him in an adverse manner. Specifically, as he matured into adulthood, he exhibited signs of withdrawal from friends and family alike. Next, once he came of age, he purposely and strategically disappeared from his family’s lives. From all outside appearances, he did this without any feelings of loss or remorse. He simply left. No notice. No letter. No goodbye. In a like manner, along his journey into the wild, he made few friends, and seemed to be calculated in cutting off ties with those people that he met on the road before any kind of meaningful relationship were to develop. Hence, it can be argued that Chris not only did not feel deserving of love; he spent two years of his life wandering the open road trying to escape his past.
