"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. . . .I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
Henry David Thoreau
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I do not know why this invokes in me a desire to go away. Not without a certain sadness that expresses itself as a feeling of abandon.
I think this thought, which has long haunted me, is a tipping point, where sadness and peace meet, where thoughts of going and not going rest.
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