"We but half express ourselves and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents"
We go through our everyday lives, speaking a bunch of stuff that we don't really believe but society expects us to follow. We are too afraid of society to admit to our own ideas and views. If people have a completely different view of something than we do, then we feel like we've done something horrible to have a different opinion than they do. What we each think and feel is divine in a sense. That means that our true beliefs are what is actually real. If we are to afraid to express our own feelings, then this world is in for lots of trouble because no one will come up with any solutions or new ideas because they'll all be afraid to do so. Everyone will be scared to come out of their shells. What society says is usually what society wants to hear. The individual who speaks truly what he feels, is hated by society, but shall have good karma for expressing his own beliefs. He shows more courage than all the rest of the people who just follow society like cattle. "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he wo in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Each person in the is world has a little different opinion about something than someone else does. No two people are going to share the exact same views on something because that wouldn't be the truth. We each have our own thoughts and minds and conjure up our own ideas. To agree with someone in a sense when you don't actually agree with that person, makes you pathetic. And what is more pathetic is that you know your following the person and know that those actually aren't your beliefs. Guts are something that take part in being able to put yourself out there. Not a lot of people are able to do that because their afraid of what the consequences might be. In truth, some of the time, your own ideas that you put out there, are in fact the same ones that others mights have but are to afraid to say themselves. You are being a leader in putting out your own thoughts or views or at least admitting when you disagree with something. Our own thoughts are pure and real and following the norm is disgracing yourself.
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Beastin it Carlos-
I liked a lot of your ideas. Although you say that We are too afraid to admit our own ideas and views. But i also believe that sometimes we take that jump into uncertainty and do go against the norm. Sometimes we do stand up for our own beliefs because obviously if we didn't we wouldn't have ideas to follow in the first place. I like the idea that "the individual...shall have good karma for expressing his own beliefs." Expressing yourself may seem hard at first, but hopefully in the end there are other people to agree with you, or hear your point and are open to what you are saying. Often we go through life afraid of what others will think of our beliefs but it is good to have an individualistic mind and think for yourself. Being a follower may seem like an easy road, but being an individualist is makes us the best we can be.
Well hey, we wrote about the same quote! I loved reading yours because you brought up some new ideas I hadn't thought of before. I completely agree that when people are lazy and succumb to other peoples ideas just for the sake of being agreeable and not wanting to offer their own opinions for fear of being rejected or put down is, like you said, rather pathetic. It's obviously intimidating to put your own ideas out there, but it's your duty to stand up for what you really believe in and stay strong in defending your point. I hadn't really thought about how things would be different if everyone went along with the rest of society, which you brought up and I found interesting. I agree it would be bad if no one was comfortable with themselves and sure enough of their opinions to go against the crowd and make changes. Good thing we have plenty of not-so-pathetic people in our generation to do so! I also quite love how you integrated that other Emerson quote (the "independence of solitude" one) into your post.
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