Parallels

For centuries men have ventured into nature to find themselves. Isolated from civilizations to find their true self or happiness. I wouldn't last two days in the Alaskan wilderness. And unlike Chis McCandless, I've never sought isolation. In fact, companionship has been my crusade. Yearning for the attention of others. However, not unlike McCandless, I find myself walking alone Into the Wild. Yet my great Alaskan adventure doesn't take me to the Pacific NW, but instead to the world's largest concrete and steel jungle. And as McCandless trekked to isolation, I now do the same.

The millions of people nomadically walking the streets of Manhattan will afford me the ability to get lost and finally look inward. There, I am just as insignificant as a sole human traversing uninhabited wilderness. Only when we accept that we are nothing can we begin to live for something. And after all, isn't that why any man barricades himself from society? To strip his soul bare and redress it?

"Leave it to me as I find a way to be."- Eddie Vedder