For this week, I want to talk about a quotation of Robinson Crusoe that was given to us to explain in the lesson. This quotation is interesting for me. I will share it.
"As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy view I had of being a rich and thriving man in my new plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate desire of rising faster than the nature of the thing admitted; and thus I cast myself down again into the deepest gulf of human misery that ever man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with life and a state of health in the world."
So Robinson Crusoe was happy when he left his parents because he'd become independent and embarked on a life of his own. But although this gave him some short-term happiness eventually it led to a great deal of suffering for him. In building his plantation he made a similar mistake. He could have worked hard and built it up slowly but surely but he wanted the fast road to success and tried to develop the plantation faster than it could naturally grow and so it failed.
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