Argumentative Essay Overconfident Supertramp - 1623 Words

Overconfident Supertramp. Many of today’s youth spend a great deal of time dreaming, picturing the exact moment a clock will land upon the time inscribed upon their birth certificate, eighteen years past and signaling their rite of passage into legal adulthood. At that moment, a new life erupts, a bountiful explosion of freedoms that cannot be forbidden, the right to pave their own way by their rules and no longer confined to the decree of a guardian. While these new freedoms are embraced immediately for some, delayed by others, these passions and longings of youth are shared by millions of young adults; the desire to chase a dream, place their mark upon the world or a select few, be great among many, or discover a life unsuppressed by the boundaries of traditional society. Regardless of the direction that these youth walk, freedom is now theirs to possess, as are the ramifications that go with it. We may only hope that these young adults possess the self-control to make wise decisions with their fre edoms. Today’s passionate freedom seekers are a generation of instilled confidence over self-control. Some may plunder forward, careless of the repercussions of their actions as they have the confidence to overcome any obstacle, as we observe with Chris McCandless in â€Å"Selections from Into the Wild†, by Jon Krakauer. Chris McCandless grasped his freedom, embarking on a journey into the Alaskan wilderness that he had â€Å"wanted to do since he was little† (Stuckey qtd. in Krakauer