Emerson
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
My life is for me, not for anyone else, and everything that surrounds the being of me is senseless, it is absurd. Ralph Waldo Emerson depicts a man that lives his own life without the pressures of the people surrounding his life, without a minute care of what people think. It is a forward track and every person laughing and pointing beside that track might as well be invisible. In Self Reliance, by Emerson, he speaks of great men that can live in the world as normal men and yet "...keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude (Emerson 228)."
I know that a person with a perfect forward track is unlikely to come by. To simply not care what people think about you, your ideas and your morals is unrealistic in today's age. Everyone has a void that they fill with another's opinion to support their very own. I find myself looking for something to reassure the purpose and direction of my......
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