Where I lived, and What I lived for.

 I wasn’t sure about this piece at first. It seemed really confusing to me and just all over the place. However I kept trying to read it and make sense of it and I finally started to understand. I really liked a few things this author said like, “But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or a county jail.” I really liked this and totally agree with it.  I also liked when the author was describing a place he had owned  and said “as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicler. I really enjoyed reading this description and saw it very clearly in my head. I really liked when the author said, “to be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.” This really hit me and all of a sudden I felt like I needed to be more awake or more alive and live for the moment. After reading the whole article I understood more clearly. I ended up really liking this writing and actually looking back to it.