Emerson's Essay: Is It Worth The Limit?

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow," said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mr. Emerson explains in this quote about the limits people give to themselves. He expresses how if people limit what they can do, and hold back from their own limits they will never get better. This is like when a horse gallops along the beach every morning to the same spot then leaves to go back home. But what if the horse was to gallop just a little more each day, it will be able to get stronger and have new experiences to push itself further even more. When the horse tests its self and goes a little more of its daily habit, it can excel along with anyone. Falling into a rot of always doing the same thing over, over, and over again is something …show more content…
Growing up being the youngest child, there were always limits on what I could and couldn't do. My adventurous tom girl helped me reach past my limits and create new ones. When others told me I couldn't make that run in soccer, I pushed myself to not only show them I could but to break my limits, but also myself to know that I can. There always came a time when I believed I was not good enough and could not excel anymore in anything. While I became older and learned through others such as my parents, coaches, and monks from the Buddhist books I've read, I understood that I need to push myself even when I am worn out and think I can no longer go any further, because those are the times I have actually excel to my greatest. To reach ones full potential that has to be dedication to reach past old limits to make room for the news ones. Mr. Emerson doesn't just write a silly line to motivate people, he wrote with passion from experience of his own. He would have had to witness the extravagant power that breaking self made boundaries to write a something that anyone can grasp that concept of. There could have been people in his town that believed they could only push past their boundaries