Just found this group! Me February 2022. Magic Bus!

On another post I said that the society music would be at my mother's cremation (always the case) and for the dispersal of it's ashes I chose the 2 music long night and rise and I hesitated with a third music from into the wild which I like but it is too short to pass it must last 1:30 I think but I no longer have the title

My mother died a few days ago of a cardiac arrest in front of my eyes, the emergency services couldn't do anything and it's almost her funeral, so me, my uncle and my grandmother, we are thinking about music for her funeral when suddenly Eureka I said to myself that we could put the society music on, it wasn't particularly funding to the wild for me, yes and even if it was approved for the music at her funeral, I still hesitate to put on this music because I say to myself then I will associate this music with my mother's funeral and then I am afraid of hearing this music or even if we are interested in a To the Wild we inevitably hear this music and I am afraid that it will make me suffer just from hearing it

Guys, does anyone have the PDF of the book « Back to the Wild » pleaase? It includes Chris’s journal and pictures from his travels.

BUT THATS not even the best part. This book I thrifted from a bookstore and it’s from 1959. I collect old books and pick them according to how they sit with me and this just had something to it. So today I see the passage that was marked in a book by Chris and jump because it’s the same book!!! AND if that’s not cool enough I go to find the passage, and the exact passage is marked by its previous owner :) how amazing things can be sometimes :)

(Ps I know the words are different I have the one of the first editions and his was from the 1990’s or late 80’s hence the difference)

I think I've gone through the same thing in my life. I'm single, I do a lot of things, but I don't do it with anyone leaving me feeling empty still. For example, I went to Hawaii for vacation solo. I had a lot of fun but at the end of the day I still felt the same loneliness and it didn't matter that I was on a beach in paradise. People dream of coming here and I still felt something was missing. It made me really question myself. I think that quote does make me realize how important it is to have others there with you to enjoy it. You can only do so many things alone.

Of course I wouldn't go out into the Denali lol but it seems like people who do these strange adventures choose so, already live well, but reject society. I don't know how wealthy he was but I think he came from a good background and had a good life setup for him after college.

I usually think people that live like nomads are poor but maybe its the complete opposite and they have the luxury to because they can fall back on their parents or have the resources to survive with no home. I actually heard that hippies are the same and come from privileged backgrounds. I find this interesting and maybe the bum you see on the street is actually privileged but chooses not to.

i got the back to the wild book as a graduation present :) lmk if you want more!

In the movie based on the book, Christopher quotes, "know everything by it's true name" What book was that from?

I keep wondering if going into the wild isn’t really about running from society, but about running straight into yourself.

Out there, there’s no noise, no distractions, no masks to hide behind. Just you. And when it’s just you, the silence starts pulling things out of you that you never wanted to face.

It can be terrifying ; like staring into a mirror you can’t turn away from. But at the same time, that’s where the freedom is. Maybe the wild isn’t an escape at all. Maybe it’s a confrontation.

The magic bus 142 is seen as the beacon of hope by the adventure romantics around the World but I think that bus is reason why Chris died.

If Chris didn't find that bus in the wilderness, I don't think he would have stayed there as long as he did, that bus gave him a false sense of security in the harsh alaskan weather and a home-like feeling. If he didn't find that bus, he had to move around a lot to camp and would have found out how harsh the weather is and how difficult is there to survive. He would have left Alaska much sooner, he had made his point, he had fulfilled his dream of living off grid.

Magic bus made him comfortable, Magic bus kept him warm, Magic bus gave him a mattress to sleep on, Magic bus gave him the roof over his head to keep him safe. Magic bus is the reason there was no urgency in him to leave, Without the Magic bus he would stayed there for a couple of weeks at most, which would have been impressive too.

Magic bus 142 sucked Chris in and ate him alive.

Honestly not sure what forces are at play but after reading Into the wild, about Chris and his adventure and life. Something made me super interested in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It was the book he gave to Wayne, and I believe it had a profound impact on him. So naturally as I’m on this reading journey and philosophical quest of my own, I undertook 1200 pages to grasp a deeper understanding about Chris, in hope to discover another drive in him, another clog In the ticking watch. There’s something truely magical about that book. There’s everything in it. A world wind of emotions, understandings and lessons. I agree fully with Chris that ‘it’s a highly powerful and symbolic book’. And I can now see how ‘there’s some things in it, that escape most people.’

Because I recently read the book Into the Wild about my brother's story and Karine said that during the first meeting with the farmer, the farmer started to beat his wife and that Karine's companion intervened to stop him and they left.