Final Discussion Response: Into The Wild

Many people either think that Chris McCandless was either mentally ill or suicidal. I don’t think he was either. McCandless I believe just wanted to get away from many people that he did not like to be around, get away from his town and all the same people. I also believe that he wanted to experience a new atmosphere somewhere else with new people in a new place. If McCandless was suicidal or mentally ill I think he would have ended his life in another manner not the way he did by going away to Alaska. If he wanted to commit suicide I think he could have done it another way and he would not have suffered because most people that want to commit suicide they don’t want to suffer because they want to die fast.  Suicidal people take the easy way out because they believe that all they have gone through is just a lot of pain and they don’t want to experience that in the way they take their own life away. McCandless did not take the easy road he wanted to go to Alaska he hitched hiked for a while and then soon after ended up in Alaska. McCandless sure did not take the supplies needed for the trip but it did not seem that he went to Alaska to die there because if so he would not have token any supplies. He thought he would have been able to live off the supplies he took and to be able to live off the land but he did not have any type of experience in preserving the meat of an animal to be able to eat it and also it seemed like he did not know many survival skills.
Not only a few people are unhappy with the way they live their lives but it is a handful but most of them don’t do anything about it. It is only just a few that actually do something about what makes them unhappy and they try to change it because they are tiered of the way things are. People that don’t do anything or at least try to change something is because they want to feel secure. If we try to change something now maybe tomorrow nothing will be the same and we will not know what to do because of just that one change, but that one change changes so many more things. Changing one thing does not only affect one person but many so I think that’s why many people are afraid to do something about it. Especially a person with a family they  have a hard time trying to figure out what they should do because they  want to go to sleep knowing that later on their kids will be able to have a great future. If you actually think about it if that one thing makes you unhappy won’t it make another person unhappy? Or even their kids? Those people may believe that if they try to change something others will judge them for what they are fighting for. Those people don’t do anything maybe just because they are to scared for what people may think of them so they sit there and wait for another person to stand up for the same thing and try to do something about it and maybe then they will join.