Into the Woods: Journey to Self-Discovery

In college I read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and immediately I wished to have an experience such as theirs; an authentic discovery of life with a transparent eyeball , living deliberately , but obligation and rationale conquered. In January of 2014 I met someone, a Lonely Bird in the Sky who asked me one simple question, “why are you here,” and it has made all the difference. Shortly after our relationship took hold I began to write fervently as the embers danced wildly, setting ablaze a facet that had long slumbered sulkily along. I wrote the following as I grew a bit frustrated with our relationship as boundaries began to reveal themselves. Curiosity and Freedom We are confined by the boundaries we so carefully build to keep us safeguarded. But they are truly masked cowardice’s as we hide from the many faces we encompass, afraid to loosen the reign we have on those particular ones of social stigma. This is a terrible hindrance of p...