3 rd Reflection

My third reflection is about the song of the eddie vedder ‘society’. He has got very broad and logical perceptions about life. The song is about corrupting society and the life itself. It is an obvious fact that individuals deteriorates in some ways as the years pass. We do not respect each other’s ideas, rights and just consume all the things without producing anything.

This song has been used as a soundtrack in the film ‘Into the Wild’ which everyone should see. It is based on a true story. In the plot, Christopher McCandless abandons all of his possessions and gives all of his money to charity. After that, he begins to hitchhike to Alaska where his biggest goal in life is. He encounters different kinds of people who changes and shapes his approach to life. When he reaches there, he spends his time reading and discovering the wilderness. He is tired of the stereotypes of society but he is not ready for the nature’s cruelness, too. He catches up a disease and at the moment of death he finally finds out in the pages of a book that ‘happiness is only real when shared’. I think this is the most effecting scene.

Here is the photograph of the real Alexander Supertamp.

At the end, however strong we are, sometimes we cannot make it on our own. The people around us are the ones who make our life more beautiful and bearable. We are not born alone and it is better not to die alone.