“HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED. It is tempting to regard
this latter notation as further evidence that McCandless’s long, lonely sabbatical
had changed him in some significant way… he intended to abandon the life of a
solitary vagabond, stop running s hard from intimacy… ”(Krakauer 189).
Travel Advice
The context of this quote is talking about how Chris
McCandless wanted to return to society, he wanted to stop running away from his
problems. He didn’t want to run from his family, he states that unshared
happiness isn’t happiness; this specific quote was found in a book he had
written in, Doctor Zhivago, by Krakauer, researchers and other doctors. They
thought the meaning of the quote was that Chris had a change of heart of his want
for isolation from society and in fact wanted to return. My travel advice for
Chris or anyone wanting to take this journey would be to take his own advice,
that he later learned, in his journey to find himself. I believe that when you’re
traveling you should in fact do the opposite of what he did; you should
surround yourself with those who love you so you can share your happiness.
Happiness, as Chris states, is not meaningful unless shared.
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