Timothy Treadwell Analysis

Timothy Treadwell was a very interesting person that loved to protect nature and wanted to live his life as a grizzly bear. This man's purpose is to only interact with the bears, without dealing with civilization, and also to learn more about nature itself. To live for many years in the Alaskan territory, without human interaction, is a very astonishing accomplishment, but being able to survive without being mauled is impressive. Before he was a guardian of the grizzlies, Timothy Treadwell was just an ordinary man who studied, worked and was a bit more conversive with people. My life is much less dangerous compared to Timothy Treadwell because I live in the main city, with shelter from creatures that live in the natural habitat. But seeing
Timothy was a very eccentric person in which he stated in the documentary Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog “I thrived on my highs, and lows of life to balance life out. That is what makes me feel human.” Timothy describes, the positive attitudes of life cures the negative emotions and balance out to make us human. Timothy Treadwell was also on depressional medication at one point of his life but refused to treat himself with medicine due to not being able to act himself, which meant to people as eccentric. Timothy showed the happiness he had for the natural world around him, which made him feel human, even if he was eccentric. As a person who is well balanced emotionally, I can disagree to which Timothy has stated in the documentary. Living life positive will always make a person happy, there is nothing wrong with always being positive, and or optimistic about life. I just find it preposterous to be able to think positive, and adding negative emotions in the mix, it just does not seem mentally healthy for the body. Many human personalities should be well balanced, not be depended to switch off from highs and lows in
Timothy Treadwell shares a small group of three close friends, one being a pilot, another being an ex-girlfriend, and the last friend was a former employee and lover that worked for him during his drug addiction time. What I find different about Timothy and myself is that I have a much larger group of friends that I share my time with compared to Timothy Treadwell. I also am not my friends’ manager for their occupations, we all have our own jobs respectively but never work for each other. Another interesting fact is when Timothy passed away, his friends did not seem phased by his grizzly bear death. If Timothy did what he enjoyed, surely his friends would have been concerned with his danger. If I was in danger, or one of my close friends, surely I would have been there not only for the moral support but, to help in any way to make situations better. The fact that Timothy’s friends did not seem phased by this was really shocking to me. Surely, it had seemed that his friends did not care for him as much as he thought. Even his old ex-girlfriend, who was a supposed close friend for twenty years, did not seem phased by this reality. She seemed to exaggerate, almost like if she was faking her emotions on camera for the documentary Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog. She personality seemed extremely bland and looked as if she was forcing her tears on camera, just to seem