Chris McCandless is my hero

Just finished reading the Into the Wild book, I really got into it, it is very different to the film, but just as enthralling. I truly envy what Chris McCandless achieved in his short time on this earth, and hope some day to emulate him, with my own journey. If I could see and experience just a small amount of the sheer joy and freedom he achieved in his life then I would be happy. Many call McCandless an idiot...a dreamer yes, an idealist certainly, but he was no idiot, he experienced and felt things that only few ever achieve in their entire lifetimes. McCandless shunned the constraints and restrictions of this suffocating society, for a simpler and beautiful experience that one can dream of. His ideals, and what he stood for, have really got into my thoughts lately, and though he may have only lived a short time on this earth, he without doubt achieved and saw more in this time than the 'normal' human being could ever dream of.