How I Read

 My impressions on "How We Read" gives me a whole other meaning on the word read and how we understand while reading. The first thing that always happens to all of us is asking questions about certain characters or plots. When the answer can be in the book itself.

On Self-Reliance Pt5

•  political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
• This quote means to me that nothing good is given so you must work and shape it to earn it
• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
• This means to me that being yourself, no matter how ridiculous, can be shown as confidence and genius 
• 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?
• This means that just for having different thinking that you’ll either be criticized or misunderstood

On Self-Reliance Pt4

• Being consistent is an asset
• From the start of our lives we learn but as we get older we learn the good and bad
• When we rely on something what happens if it has no nor fuel or energy
• An example is a GPS, what if you didn’t have one and had to go home
• People who do easy things never take risks
• To be great is to be misunderstood 
• People with good rational arguments are misunderstood 
• Be around people you care and try hard to prove your statement 
• What if you became aware of the differences you made in people’s lives?
• Such as not being born
• I bring an argument to my group of friends
• So probably without me my group wouldn’t have existed together

Emerson’s idea of speaking out of your private heart.

On Self-Reliance Pt 3

• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind”
• Acting good is not as as good as doing good
• Vanity is the desire to look good
• Act who you are not 
• Willing to give up time for you not to just act like I care
• Virtue is your generosity 
• Rather be myself than someone famous 
• “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure”
• People in power that are upset use the art of good conversation?

On Self-Reliance Pt 2

• “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all man,-that is genius.”
• When the less mature get what they want 
• As young people we only see things as fun or boring
• Independence is seen as out of order
• Emerson sees us as individual thinkers
• “The times have changed” I wholeheartedly agree with Preston
• How back then being different wasn’t feared in schools
• Then how schools were more strict after 9/11
• Thoughts held in ourselves will soon be spoken by another in mind

First Impression: On Self-Reliance

My thoughts “On Self-Reliance” is it gives me whole new understanding of how we think and share our thinking. This essay hits us where we think by having us all realize that standing your ground and presenting something new like an idea can have a big impact on how the community feels. Either having the community completely disagree with you, disagree but argue with you, or completely agreeing and feeling the same way as you. All of us keep our ideas a secret as we’re afraid of repercussions such as judgement or rejection by society.

Reciting “The Road Not Taken”