Truth be told, I never knew why I went into the woods that day. Perhaps for justice, for redemption, for freedom of mind and word. I liked to believe that I was destined to discover it; I was destined to come face to face with the brutality of life and death among the pines. I was put on this earth to live in it, breath in it; my heart pounded to the chirping of birds and my eyelashes fluttered to the sounds of a rushing creek. And when I came to know it, I discovered the monotony of the life I had lived. I found my old life to have no real purpose, and started forth with a new purpose and examination of conscience. Spring rose from the ashes of winter, and I, too, rose from my own destruction and transformed.
And it all started somewhere- a beautiful seed that had sprouted from him. He had planted a feeling so deep inside me that even as I lay gasping for my final breath, I could still feel it seeping out of my pores. He had awoken me from my decade-long slumber and pushed me, head first, into the woods.
Into Walden.
And now, I can never go back.
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Fanfiction"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
