Journal #7 Walden

A lot of deep thoughts exist in Thoreau’s Walden from sentence to sentence. One thing I thought most in Walden is “Our life is frittered away by details. Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity!” It obvious shows that Thoreau pursues the simple living. He wonders that why we live with such hurry and complex of life. I like he uses the boundary of German Confederacy as an example to demonstrate that we concentrate more internal than external, in other word he means that we pay more attention to details than the overall situation. But what I think is simple living is an ideal in our society, because society is changed from simple to complex, simple living existed in history, so we can’t live in history in today’s society. Also in some situations, details are essential factors to decide one thing, so “Our life is frittered away by details” is a little bit absolute.