Thoreau's Cogent Argument Analysis

In the pursuits for a myriad of ideals, people often gloss over the necessities that accompany them. Like the oxygen in the air, such an indispensable requisite to sustain living organisms, is rarely noticed or conceived significantly in humans’ daily schedule. Perhaps, the world has grown too convoluted – in a sense that the influence of technologies has turned remarkably prominent to create impacts on humans’ proceedings and directions in life. Because of familiarity and ubiquity of advance equipments and cutting-edge facts, their negative impacts are too subtle to be noticed or cared. Yet such underlying problem must be brought to light for the sake of living itself. Living deliberately derives from a desire to stand up for one’s own instinctual ideal, with neither imitation nor limitation from social mirror and materialistic strains, and view life as a broad field in which the mind can ponder thoughts freely; this is the type of breakthrough that will guide one to live up a meaningful and tenacious existence.
The
book Walden, by Henry David Thoreau brings about a fresh and novel stance to view the vivacious nature and the developing world. His two years of hermitage by the Walden Pond evoked divinity and valuable meanings through life’s simplest amusements, such as a personal reflection upon a barred owl’s behavioral adaptations and relish upon its distinct sounds. Understandably, such pleasure may sound absurd in a modern perspective, as if no time could be spared for such seemingly trivial matter. Yet in Thoreau’s inhabited environment, it was something sensational and suggestive; the bond he constructed with the owl conveys a sense of identity and companionship through his deliberate engagements with other diverse beings. Thoreau also actively asserts the art of living an unpretentious life replete with significance of presence, “we must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep.” Technology is a prevailing tool that has an approach to degrade human values, just as how Thoreau advocates that nature makes people more human than devices, urging his readers to aspire more than the criterions of civilization, to spiritualize.
Despite of Thoreau’s cogent argument, it is yet a conundrum to determine a perfect solution to resolve the loss of proactive sensors, because human beings are often ambivalent about the verities of living.
The act of going off into the woods and seek revelations seems too irrational and pointless to even consider it. Besides, the population has become adapted to the mainstream lifestyle as the norm and prefer to be steered by society’s current. This practice of conformity is not wrong, it is simply deficient. When one realizes there has always been a choice, to live wilfully and consciously, freed from social demands and role’s pressure, one is likely to remorse, particularly at a late stage of life. Only through identifying one’s authentic motivation to live, one will not consider any second of life from then and on as wasted, because each instant is fruitful and momentous to create the splendor of being founded by an earnest deliberation of
heart.
In the end, both wisdoms and fulfilment can arise and encompass anyone who wishes to live vividly and truthfully. And unexpected prospects of bliss and blessings do await in a horizon past the invisible limitations, set by societal models and a high-tech dependency. Living is a work of art that is to be carved painstakingly by guidelines, yet at the same time, stroked deliberately by liberty of choice to add colours and designs, yielding an unpredicted result.