The Unbearable Lightness of Being FREE!

The summer wind breezing through my hair, making me feel lighter, since I accomplished what the society emposed on me to be a succesful healthy young man. To be a University Graduate. What an unnecessary burden on teenage minds that wish to search themselves in the nature, to seek happiness, to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. SOCIETY, I'm talking to you! I did what you wanted me to do. It is now my chance to do what I want, instead of what my father, my mother, my friends, our neighbohrs, an employer in a company wants me to do, but what I WANT! Seeing how proud my father and mother was today made me feel disgusted. After all these years they never did appreciate my ideals, never approved my thoughts and now they are happy that I followed the path they created for me to follow. They ignore what I say or think! I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them, becasu they will think they have bought my respect. To run away from the ones that misunderstand me, to find new people that will accept and be open-minded about my opinions, I'm going to dissapear for a while. Now I'm headed to west, for an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, for an epic journey that would change everything. As I drive west out of Atlanta, I intend to invent an utterly new life for myself. From this day on, I leave Chris McCandless behind for the people that care about the illusion of my soul, and I move on as Alexander Supertramp, master of my own destiny.