Ralph Waldo Emerson: Are You Really True To Myself?

When you think of someone that is actually true to themselves, who is it? Ralph Waldo Emerson said “To be great is to be misunderstood.” When he wrote this I believe what he is trying to say that it is okay to be different and misunderstood, and that you should get out of your comfort zone and be different. Henry David Thoreau said ”I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” What think he was saying is that he wants to be satisfied with how he died, and to add on to that how would someone be satisfied if they spent their whole life following someone else. Someone that is true to themselves should be independent and a nonconformist. When I think of someone with all of these characteristics I …show more content…
He grew up in a family and a area that was below the poverty line. He didn’t have many positive influences. His parents were addicted to drugs. His father wasn’t around very much. His brothers were selling drugs. And his sisters were getting pregnant at an early age. He didn’t have many positive influences. He talks about his early life in his many interviews. There is also a stigma behind rappers that they are constantly trying to represent themselves in a manner that shows them as “hard” or like a tough guy.
Even through all his struggles at a young age he did not conform to his surroundings. He did not become a drug dealer. Nor did he turn to drugs. He worked two jobs. Logic also didn’t conform as a rapper neither. He is different than the average rapper. He truly represents himself, and doesn’t try to show himself as“Hard” or anything that he isn’t. His motto is “peace, love, and positivity”. He doesn’t rap about drugs, women, guns, or money. He raps about things like video games and his past. He represents and pushes positivity. He is true to