“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential truths of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach me. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived at all. Living is so dear.” Henry David Thoreau can be credited as one of the first western philosophers to point out the real values in life. Just as Plato made the famous Cave Allegory speaking of what it means to go through enlightenment and truly understand what is real in this world and what is not, Thoreau is able to push our minds to the point where we begin to question who we are and what embodies our lives. Throughout our entire lives, we are asked who we are. Whether it is for scholarship information, or dinner table talk with your grandparents at Christmas. When examining one 's life and he things that are involved in it, it becomes a little easier to see just exactly who we are. In the sense of owning …show more content…
Anyone who knows who I am, at all, is aware of how close I am to my family, Because I did grow up with the “it takes a village to raise a child” manner of life, I have always had a deep understanding of how important your family can be. From the time my youngest brother was born, I have become severely attached to my immediate family. Our relationships vary from time to time, but that is nothing more than expected. However, I have spend a large majority of my high school career sitting at home with my family on a Friday night. It is quite obvious to me that my relationship and feeling of connection to my family has a strong hold on me, in a sense it owns me more than I do myself. However, I do not believe that this is one of the dangerous kinds of control that you can have in your life. It might not be completely healthy, but I do believe it is one of the best kinds of situations that you can say “owns