Sunday, October 19, 2008

Self _ Reliance by: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance is the pre-condition for true community. True community is the nurturing environment for strong and healthy individualism. Maturity, individuation, is the ability to be self-reliant and intimate at the same time.
Self-reliance is the quality of respecting your own inner search for what seems most true and meaningful for you and contributing your resulting unique viewpoint to enrich the community through diversityAs what Emerson wants his reader to know that within ourselves lies a uniqueness which develops our own personal character that differentiate us from one another. Never be ashamed to showcase what you got in yourself instead show and prove to everyone what you have in yourself. Cowardness is no place in this world for it only destructs one’s self. To be true human being is facing the problem that we encounter along our way because problem comes to test our human capabilities. All in all, the essay wants us to awaken to the reality that we must be competitive individual who are willing to show and risk our potentials and skills that will put us to the best that we can be as person.

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