In society today it is hard for most people to express themselves for who they really are. People are afraid of judgement, and often do not even realize who they actually are. There is a sense of conformity that almost everyone follows, they go through trouble to be who they should be, not who they are. If people could realize how much potential they had, and how much they could accomplish; great things would happen. Everyone is different, they should't try to be something else, or be held back by societies
views and restrictions.
During Thoreau's time everyone was focused on self realization and self thinking. People wanted to find out things for themselves and learn and become great things. Now, most people don't strive to gain knowledge and understanding of their capabilities.
The ability to celebrate yourself is extremely valuable and helpful when you are trying to accomplish things. With celebration of your abilities, and self realization, you are confident and better able to do things that are tough. Confidence is key in life, without it it is very hard to try new things and be social.
I definetly agree with your point saying that now a days people dont strive to completely find their capabilities and gain knoweledge. I however do think there is a small group who still might. It depends on how you're raised in my opinion, but yes the mass majority do not. Good Blog.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you say that in today's society it is hard to truly be yourself especially since the people in our society is constantly judging each other. I think it's interesting how you think that if we would just forget about all those judgements and weren't afraid to truly be ourselves that we would be more productive as a person.
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