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“ So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun
Christopher McCandless
Mr. Franz: I’m going to miss you when you go.
Chris: I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God’s placed it all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Mr. Franz: Yeah. I am going to take stock of that. You know I am. I want to tell you something. From bits and pieces of what you have told me about your family, your mother and your dad… And I know you have problems with the church too… But there is some kind of bigger thing that we can all appreciate and it sounds to me you don’t mind calling it God. But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.
Chris: Holy shit!
Mr. Franz: Alaska? Son what the hell are you running from?
Chris: You know I could ask you the same question, except I already know the answer.
Mr. Franz: Oh you do, do you?
Chris: I do, Mr. Franz! You got to get back out in the world! Get out of that lonely house, that little workshop of yours. Get back out on the road! Really! You’re gonna live a long time, Ron. You should make a radical change in your lifestyle. I mean the core of man’s spirit comes from new experiences. And there you are, stubborn old man, sitting on your butt.
Mr. Franz: Sitting on my butt?
Chris: Yeah.
Mr. Franz: I’ll show you sitting on my butt!
Mr. Franz: You strike me as a bright young man, am I wrong about that?
Chris: I think I’ve got my head on my shoulders pretty good.
Mr. Franz: Well that’s what I mean. How long you been out here?
Chris: Couple of weeks.
Mr. Franz: And before that?
Chris: A lot of places. Been moving around a lot.
Mr. Franz: Well how old are you?
Chris: Twenty- three.
Mr. Franz: Twenty-three years old. Son, don’t you think you ought to be getting yourself an education? And a job? And making something of this life?
Chris: Look Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don’t want one. You don’t need to worry about me. I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I’m living like this by choice.
Mr. Franz: In the dirt?
Chris: Yeah, in the dirt.
Mr. Franz: Where’s your family?
Chris: Don’t have one anymore.
Mr. Franz: That’s a shame.
lapetitecoccinelle:(he)ART in progress festival… 11/11.
(via futurisms)
Christopher McCandless: “I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them. And work which one hopes may be of some use. Then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor. Such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps. What more can the heart of a man desire?”
