“Thoughts accidentally thrown together become a frame in which more may be developed and exhibited. Perhaps this is the main value of a habit of writing, of keeping a journal-that so we remember our best hours and stimulate ourselves.”
When one begins to think, at first, thoughts come slow. However, after a while, ideas tend to flow with ease and soon just become a natural practice. This is due to the process of attaining innovations off one’s previous ideas and merely just building off them. In addition, the journal can provide and prove to be a very valuable object. It enables one to look back at the previous days and remember the exact thoughts that they were thinking at that moment; it provides insight, for the reader, about the author and allows the reader to really get into their mind and discover the author’s deepest philosophies.


”My desire for society is infinitely increased; my fitness for any actual society is diminished.”
Here, Thoreau somewhat contradicts himself subsequently making a paradox. He states that everyday his yearning for human contact and society increases yet at the same time he states that he is not capable to interact with society anymore. Everyday his desire for society grows, but his ability to interact with society is depleting. In this situation, he placed himself in a very bad spot. On both sides of the scenario he is faced with two hardships, they both cancel out each other in the manner that he wants to be with society yet cant interact with them making himself more socially awkward and liking society less and less consequencely, placing himself back in the same situation.