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Write A Letter To Alaska

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Dear Billie McCandless, I am aware I may have caused you anxiety and strain due to my disappearance and I am terribly sorry for you may receive this letter rather late. I am aware you 're pondering about my whereabouts, but I reassure you I have been doing well. I have recently come across many people along my journey to Alaska who have stimulated different perspectives and outlooks towards me on life. I worked a while back on an agricultural farm for a man by the name of crazy Ernie, who I, truthfully, most regret working with, for he had no intent of paying me for my services. I also worked at a fast food place where I quit a few weeks in, I realized I was miserable and went along with my extravagant journey to Alaska. You are probably speculating how I managed to get to Alaska on my own, I hitched hiked most …show more content…

I am aware I haven 't always been the most affectionate and supportive son towards my father and you, but I want to speak my mind before I 'm gone with nothing further to leave behind as evidence of my existence, but this letter to you, I want to thank you for your concern for my well being and I now understand how you may have confused love and happiness for all your material gifts and gestures evolved around money. I understand they were all good intentions on your part. Although I don 't believe in our habitual lifestyle, humanities inventions, or that material things are necessities, the hospitality I have come across during my journey from kind strangers who cared for me as one of their own whom I wish now I would be able to say goodbye to one last time; they have influenced me to believe that humanity is good and that there is still hope for a better society. I have lived an adventure I do not regret starting, but I am ashamed to have had so much love given to me throughout my life that I just now recognize as love and I apologize on my behalf. I now understand all your actions have been in my best interests. Today is my one-hundredth day in the

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