"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion..."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Today, the world has become full of people who would treat you based on the number of personal servants (i.e. maids, drivers, cooks) working for you. If your house is swarming with them, you're the boss of the crowd. If you lacked any, you're the latest joke. On whole, the concept of having people take care of you isn't one encouraged by a self-reliant person. Such a person would prefer independence and personal comfort in handling his or her general life matters over leaving this responsibility to someone else. Another concept a self-reliant person would most likely dissuade is the establishment of fashion trends. If every person were to follow the "latest" fashion trend, the world would be dreadfully mundane. If you try to stand out, you would be breaking the rule, and any attempt to break the rule would make you an outcast. A self-reliant person wouldn't care less and would eagerly make it a point to break the rule.
Advice from me: avoid acting on the last sentence when present on school grounds. You wouldn't want to earn yourself a couple of detentions, now would you?
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