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Christopher Mccandless 'Happiness Is Only Real When Shared'

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«Happiness is only real when shared» is the last sentence Christopher Johnson McCandless wrote in a red book just before die. Maybe that was what he learnt after all the time he lived in the “Magic bus” as he called it, and knowing he was going to die, he decided to write it. His lasts thoughts were that maybe if he returned home with his family, and share his happiness, they could understands what he was trying to say, and therefore, his happiness would be real.
In the movie Christopher is a 23 years old man who leaves his home and his family, whose parents are only worried about their status and what others think about them, to start hitchhiking to nowhere. He cut, burnt and destroyed his credits cards and everything that represents modern …show more content…

Happiness is what makes yourself smile and enjoy the life that you have. Make others happy because you do what they want you to do won’t make you happy and won’t make them happy either, even if they think otherwise. “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were deemed to be unalienable rights by the Unites Estates Declaration of Independence. In my opinion, that means that you can’t live without liberty, and liberty is impossible to be found without the pursuit of happiness that you can only obtain when you make what you want and what makes you happy. I think that is why Christopher left his home, because he knew that he wouldn’t be happy doing was he was supposed to do; meet a girl, find a job, have a family…He felt that that was what others wanted for him, not what the really wanted. Instead of that, what he wanted was a life in the nature, without worries about money or society. He teaches us that if we don’t like something, we don’t have to do it, just like he did when he was working in the fast food restaurant; his boss asked him politely to wear socks while he was working, and he left the job, because he didn’t want to wear

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