Day 3- I actually feel a lot better about drinking only water. I know that it is healthier for me to drink water alone, which makes it easier for me to do so. I love water <3

Day 2- People in general are extremely adaptive, and I have found that it isn't particularly difficult to change something for a week. Only drinking water has been quite easy, although I do miss the taste of fresh coffee in the morning and the taste of peach tea at lunch. At least I am becoming increasingly hydrated though! There seems to be a silver lining in everything.

Into the wild experiment-
The thing that I will try to give up is speaking when outside of class (for a week)

Day 1- To be completely honest, it was surprisingly easy to not speak for a day. Not saying anything, but instead listening and silently reflecting really provides an ideal environment for true introspection. Although I started off strong, I had to speak for baseball, as I had a playoff game. I will be adapting my experiment, and for the next four days I will try to go without drinking anything but water.

Ernest Hemingway, 1917

Cohn seems to be haunted by the expansive absense of true meaning in his life. He is also extremely distressed and dissatisfied by where he is, both location and occupation wise. As someone who knows what it feels like to have a generous sum of money, and an extremely comfortable yet more importantly stable life style, it is obvious that he yearns for something more in life. Cohn wants something to define him as a person, and has trouble in doing that. This feeling of inadequecy is consistent with the modern and post-modern rejection of pre-conceived life; by that, I am talking about how before world war I and II, we collectively defined ourselfs through advancements in science, medicine, exploration, diplomacy, etc. As people recognized that these values led to the horrifying wars, common thought on how to live and what to be drastically changed. Cohn, and, I suspect, much of his generation are in constant pursuit of something to define themselves as people.