Thoreau’s adventure led him to the conclusion that to survive, be happy, and content didn’t require too many properties or amassed wealth, riches, or celebrity connections, but that it depended on one’s ability to harness and tap into their natural intuitions, morality, and honest spirituality. For this cause, Thoreau abandoned his friends and family – along with everything he ever owned acquired in society to survive on humble and honest means. His ideas in ‘ Walden’ – which by far is his best legacy – were started in the first place as a personal experimental project as he sought to fix the popular and so-called conventional ways that society forced people to live by. Thoreau confronted several social constructs and searched for the most appropriate ways the individual can live a happier, more fulfilling life – even without great means. And being a social thinker and philosopher, he constantly had questions about society and the norms by which people tended to live by. Henry David Thoreau is a man remembered for his contradictory beliefs and ideas.
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