Self_Reliance

Self Reliance After reading Emerson’s “Self Reliance” I have discovered that self-reliance is the most significant aspect in my life. Emerson talks about inspiring ideas, which involves trusting and only answering to thyself. He believes in saying exactly what you think, not to be what your not and to live only by what you believe to be the best. “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.” To translate this Emerson quote one can say that if a man is jealous of other people, he will ignore his own qualities and if a man tries to be like other people, he will lose himself; like suicide. When I was younger it was hard for me to have faith in myself. I would always try to fit in to the so-called “cool crowd” and when I didn’t get accepted I began to resent them. What I tried to finally do was copy them, their clothes, their taste in music, and the actions that they took. It was then that I realized that I didn’t like their clothes, their taste in music and believe, own, self-reliance, people, myself, life, think, one, must, mind, emerson, yourself, wanted, true, thoughts, things, taste, suicide, say, said, realized, others, order, nothing, music, man, live, imitation, imitating, goals, essay, emerson’s, didn’t, clothes, best