I've been waiting for this prompt for a long time.
This is the lovely part of the blog where I get to tell you why the URL is so
awesome. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance essay is probably one of my
favorite pieces of literature. The beauty and eloquence of his words are
extremely influential. Emerson says in this essay, "It is easy in the
world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after
our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of solitude". I've tried to live by
this notion. Even when it seems that everyone is doing it, we
can stand strong and live by the values that we’ve constructed. We are individuals,
and as such, we are entitled to stand alone. We just have to find the self-reliance
and strength within ourselves to do so.
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