Ash Thoreau

This is beginning of something. Of what? I’m not sure. It’s as if something was set in motion last month. Maybe it started before that?

Two weeks ago, my mom found me in Barnes & Noble after we had split ways, searching out new books. She declared that she was buying me a book. A discounted, illustrated edition of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden.” A book that has literally been on my “to be read,” list since I was born.

Now, as I plan for an unrelated trip to Massachusetts that has been in the works for over a year, I start to read said book. Come to find out, Walden Pond is in Concord, Massachusetts! It says this in the first paragraph, and I’m shook. What are the odds that I am reading this now, right before my trip?!

It feels like the beginning of some sort of personal journey that I’ve needed my entire life. I realize it’s most likely coincidence but maybe this coincidence will start something bigger. We will see how I feel after visiting Concord.

So I snapped a quick selfie of myself (for posterity) and plan to continue to do so until I figure out where I’m going. I’m curious to see how this will change me.

-Me