The Joy of Life

1.) What Chris is talking about in this small paragraph of words that, every person does not want to move out of their comfort zone. We basically live in a world full of security, and comfort. When people finally go out in the real world like the wilderness, they do not like it and they go back in their fake world of security. Also how we fool ourselves with the security, like how if a person lives their whole lives in security, they would have never know what real freedom, enjoyment is. If someone never really felt how it means to be in the world without sercurity, it would suck to be them. It is the best experience of your whole life. I do agree with what Chris says in those sections of words. I have been in the wilderness before. It feels amazing it is like all of your stress, problems, and everything bad from the society just goes away from the time you go into the wild until the time you leave it.

2.) Chris embraced these beliefs by just following it. He wanted to do these beliefs for an extremely long time now. Since he was finally able to get a chance to do, he did it without thinking twice. He chise to follow these beliefs. He wanted to be a free man, so all he had to d was abandon his old life without his family, and start a new life as Alex Supertramp.

3.) My life has been conditioned to being with sercurity, comfort, and conservation in basically everything that I do. When I go to school, I go with my crowd of people that I am comfortable with. Also how when I use my Ipod in almost everything that I do. Living in the wilderness, it is a great experience to have without any electronics, connections to the world, etc. If I met Chris, the type of specific qustions that he would ask are, if I am corrupted by the the cruel society with elctronics, security, comfort etc. Also if I have any family problems, or friendship problems. If he known my personal life, he would have noticed that i have too much to handle friendship relationship problems. What he would encourage me to do is, he would tell me to try and fix all of my friendship problems and find out who are your real friends and who are not. He would also encourage me to use my Ipod for less time.

Poems that Chris Might Like

#1

Travel to the place
Where mind set to peace,
No one can see,
Feel us free.

Travel to the place
Where we can breathe,
Fill our desire,
We wish; we aspire.

Travel to the place
Where we have silence,
Flower of fragrance,
And nature to admire.

Travel to the place
Where we can write,
Lines of rhyme,
At any time.

Travel to the place
Where we have enough space,
Work without race,
No tension on face.

Travel to the place
Where we can dance,
Sing at glance,
Bit of time to romance.

Travel to the place
Where we spread love,
Freedom to serve
And land to move.

Travel to the place
Where we can live,
Of joy and sprinkle its grace,
And do anything, anywhere. 

Divyesh J. Shah

#2

You hear Nature's voice in the river that ever flows on towards the sea
A voice destined to live forever that has lived for untold centuries
From the foothills of the high country it babbles downhill night and day
By groves and by ditches and hedgerows to saltwater it winds it's way.

You hear Nature's voice in her birdsong their music carrying in the breeze
The sounds that the freshening winds make rustling in the leaves of the trees
Some of the happier sounds of Nature though to Nature there's another side
When Nature she shouts out her anger all others from her seek a safe place to hide.

When Nature she grows very angry the fear of the World is in her cry
She shakes the Earth flattens great buildings she roars and her lightning flashes in the sky
She crackles when her forests burn leaving blackness and smoke everywhere
With the power of Nature in a fury none other can hope to compare.

You hear Nature's voice in all Seasons Winter, Spring and Summer and Fall
And you hear Nature's voice in the night-time when her nocturnal creatures do call Nature's voice will live on forever 'tis something not destined to die

As Nature herself does not have a time span as such are for mortals such as I. 

Francis Duggan

In the first poem, it talks about the places where everyone wants to travel. It is explaining everyone's dream place to travel. If you summarize the whole poem into one sentence, it would say that if you travel to your favorite place, you have peace and you will not regret it. It also talks about how it would feel if you were in your favorite place. In every paragraph it starts with the line "Travel to the place..." and in every paragraph all have similar explanations on why you should travel to your favorite place. This poem reminds of every time I go to Ecuador in the summer. I can forget everything that is happening in the USA and have a new free life in Ecuador. It feels like when I'm in Ecuador, all of my problems and stress just disappear. I always get mad when my time in Ecuador is almost over I get mad and try to do as many things as I can that I could never do here.

In the second poem, it talks about how nature is all around us and it will not die until the end of time. Nature is found in almost everywhere, in fact it IS found everywhere. Nature will be around all year long and even past the time we die. Everything that us humans made all came from nature in the beginning. Also it talks about the nature's voice like the animals, the wind, etc. Also about nature's feelings where when shew is angry, she causes earthquakes, and lightning. When it nature is happy, calm winds, and sunny days. I went camping once when I was 12 years old. My family and some friends went to PA and found a perfect place to camp. We all settled down, made our tents, and enjoyed nature. We were there for about a whole weekend. We were disconnected from the world and the problems it comes with. We had nothing except nature itself. Every time when it was night, i used to go with my friend to a secret place I found nearby our tents, and it was a perfect place to look at the stars. It was amazing until we had to go back into our everyday lives.

A New Day in Spain

I really want to get away from the cruel society that the United States brings in this world. As of right now I have been saving up on my $2500 to get a flight ticket to Spain, Madrid. As I begin my journey, I get all the right materials, clothes, camera, my journal, my toothbrush, and my phone and Ipod. I would at least tell my brother to tell my parents that I went to Madrid but I will tell him once I get to Madrid. At last! The fresh smell of Spain. Just stepping out of the airplane, I feel much more free then when I was in New Jersey. Its nine in the morning when I stepped out of the plane. Since I'm using the time in New Jersey I have to forward the time by six hours. So in Spain it is three in the afternoon. Also the immigration line is very long so I just take out my Ipod and listen to songs with my earphones. As I listen to my songs I noticed a woman just looking at me repeatedly. I didn't think it was strange so I just ignored her and waited in line. After what must have been like 3 hours waiting in the line and getting all my bags, I was finally free in Spain! The first thing that I did was find a cab and ask him for any good locations on hotels. He was to get to one and as I got out of the cab, I saw that woman again. I was becoming a bit suspicious but i still didn't worry about it.

I just ignored her again. As I went inside to check into the hotel, I noticed something familiar in the lobby. I couldn't of what it was but it felt like I had been in this same lobby before. I tried just ignoring the fact that it felt so familiar but as I got to my room, I felt better. I decided to stay in my room for today but as the next day comes I will start to get to know Spain. Spain is very exciting! I went to eat at restaurants and then just spend the rest of the day either walking or in a taxi. Most of the time is spend the first couple of days going to parks and meeting strangers and say "hola!" and most of the time I always brighten up the strangers day by either giving them good advice or just making them laugh. After a couple of days past, I noticed that I'm just spending my time in the same place, and the whole reason why I came to Spain was to know most of the places in Spain, not to stay in one place for the whole time I'm in Spain. I rented a car in a nearby place and I asked him if I could rent it for 4 weeks and he was okay with it. I had to go back to the hotel I was in and go to the lobby and give their room key back, but as I was walking out again I saw that strange woman again. I didn't know what to do so I took all of my stuff out of the hotel and into the rented car.

The first thing that I decided to do was to get a ticket to see a Real Madrid play before I leave back to the United States. Again I see that same woman again and she kept on staring at me. I was getting more and more scared but I kept on walking. Just when I bought the ticket, I went straight to the car and drove off to a city nearby. I stopped and walked around to check out the place. It was very good to stay at since there were a lot of homeless people walking around and a lot of robbers, I decided to get back in the car and drive south of Madrid to a city named Móstoles. It was very beautiful and neat, so I decided to find a nearby hotel and stay in for one night. As I checked the whole map of Spain i noticed that I wanted to go to Barcelona. I decided to go to Barcelona to know how that city looks like since a lot of people that I met, most of them said that I have to visit Barcelona before I left so I decided to do it. It took a couple of days to get there but I finally did it. They where right that Barcelona was a beautiful city. As I got out of the car to go get something to eat, I got scared! The same girl that stalked me throughout the entire time that I was in Spain was working in a restaurant I was in as a waiter.After I got out of the restaurant, I noticed her following me. I had to stop this nonsense so I stopped turned around go asked her what is her named. She replied "My name is Estephany." I asked "Why do you keep following me?" She frowned and replied "Do you have a problem?" I got mad and yelled "Yes! It is getting creepy that you are following me around. Why?". Next thing I know, she brings out a hammer. I was shocked and asked "Why do you have a hammer?" She smirked and said "Because you have something that I want..." I got confused and asked "What thing?"

I blacked out not knowing what just happened. I woke up in the hospital and the doctors told me "A girl hit you with a hammer on your head and took everything in your pocket." I was thinking what I had in my pocket and I remembered that I had my Ipod in it so it became clear that she wanted my Ipod. The doctor said " I'm very surprised that you survived after getting hit with a hammer, she hit you on the head and you was bleeding internally by a lot." I had to spend abut two weeks in the hospital before they let me go. Surprising enough I found the rented car in the same place that I left it. I got back into the car and drove back to Madrid. I never saw that woman ever again in my life. I spent the rest of my days in Madrid waiting for the day of the game. The day that the game was exactly 2 days before I left. That game that I saw was a championship game and Real Madrid ended up winning. That day was the greatest day in my life. It ended shortly when i realized I had to go back to New Jersey. It was all worth it though. This trip to Spain really taught me that other cultures can be much more exciting and interesting than your own culture.

Rapture of the Deep News Investigation

On a faithful day, Audrey wanted to break the world record for free diving by going 561 feet into the water. When Audrey wanted to perform, it was a such a terrible day because it was raining very hard and there lighting. Audrey didn't care all she wanted to do was break the world record and come back alive. When she started, Pinin noticed something strange when Audrey went into the water. He noticed that she was going so slow. Then once Audrey made it to the bottom all she had to do was to a pin to release an ascent portion of the sled, and open the valve on the air tank and hold on for dear life. The bag didn't inflate and Audrey was stuck at the bottom of the ocean. She kept on trying to turn the valve on to inflate the bag but no luck. After awhile someone was able to fill her bag a little bit and was able to fill the bag but not completely. After awhile Audrey became unconscious, Pascal was able to get her and bring her back but when he did, Audrey was spewing blood from her mouth. Once she got to the hospital, it was all over for Audrey. From my perspective, she died on accident.

From all of the evidence that I have gathered I believe that she did die on accident. Other people say that she got murdered by her husband but I don't get their reasons. How she died on accident makes much more sense then getting murdered by a husband. They were such a good couple so it seems highly unusual how the husband ended up killing his wife. I think that they thought that they put enough air to the air tank to fill up the bag, but their calculations were wrong. A lot of things went wrong today when Audrey wanted to do break the world record. From what i had gathered in reading all of the article, I do believe that she died on accident and that it her time to move on to another better life.