Since the beginning of time confidence has been something every person has had to deal with. Walden once said "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"(Walden handout. 32-34). Walden was saying that if someone just has the confidence in ones self then they will be able to accomplish anything they want. In the video dove put on they wanted to see the women's confidence and how they portrait themselves. They acknowledge that most people don't see themselves for all they are and that shows when the women explain their faces to the person sketching them, the pictures are very dull. However when strangers explain the women the picture comes out beautiful and spot on. When the women saw both of the pictures next to each other they were taken back and realized how poorly they see themselves compared to others. Confidence impacts everything at it always has been that way. Both Dove and Walden connect this idea about confidence being everything, and how much better you can be and how much more you can accomplish with confidence in yourself.
"Dove Real Beauty Sketches". Youtube. Dove, Apr. 14, 2013.
Final Exam - Nonconformity
BE YOU
Transcendentalist have always talked about the concept of nonconformity. Nonconformity is stepping out of the box, the what everyone else is doing, and stepping to the beat of your own drum. Walden said exactly that " If a man does not keep peace with his compassions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured of far away"(Walden handout. 67-68). Let people be them is what Walden is saying, and let yourself be you. People try so hard to be in the norm and fit it that they aren't finding the happiness found when being yourself. This is still a common problem today, people want to "fit in". There is a series of motivational speeches that I found and I shared one of them because he relates it to people that are looked up to. I think that is very important in inspiring people to be who they are, if they can look up to successful people who did their own thing they will be inspired to do the same. The narrator of this video says "When you become the right person you begin to separate yourself from other people you will succeed...you study other people but be by yourself find yourself". Another line I like that he says is "When people that don't like you don't bother you...EJ I don't like that you do this, ' I don't care I'm living for me' ". He is telling people to stop worrying about being what what you think other people want and just be, be you! When you truly have that "i don't care what anyone thinks, I'm happy with myself" feeling you have pushed past conformity and fitting in and can be truly happy. Both Whitman and the video are saying this and connecting the same idea. The video does a goo job of connecting to people this day in age with the same idea Whitman had.
"MOTIVATION-BE THE BEST YOU". Youtube. BodyNBeautyFitness, July 22, 2012.
Final Exam- Nature
Circle Of Life
Nature is one thing that has never, and will never, change. That's the beauty of it. No matter what craziness happens in this world it will always start and end the same way. Whitman says " Or i guess the grass itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation"(Whitman handout. 45-46). It is saying everything starts as a seed, a baby, a grain, and grows. Everything is this world starts as something small and builds. And then it will fall and die because thats the cycle. The cycle does continue though. The video I want to share with you is showing the most spectacular places all over the world and the beauty nature has. Every place that was shown in that video started as something small, and turned into the beauty it has now, but will at some point die or end, but in one way or another carry on. A great example is; when people die they get buried in the ground and with time become part of the soil. With time grass will grow from the soil. A flower will grow in that grass or a tree, the tree that creates oxygen for people now to breath. It's all a cycle that is infinite. Nature is great because it will always be simple. Things are born, live, and die.
"Circle Of Life - Nature". Youtube. Scoot aloo, Jan 15, 2011.
Final Exam - Free Thought
Life is Easy, Its So Easy and Fun
People have always been caught up in the latest and greatest. We as a society have always had a problem with that and always will. It's wasting our lives away. Walden says " Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life"(Walden handout. 89-90). Why do people always try to be better and try to be faster then the next? They don't realize that they are moving so fast they aren't taking the time to look around at the joy and beauty they are missing. It's a sad yet beautiful theory. Every person since the beginning of time has moved too fast and that is what transcendentalists are saying; look around and slow down. The video I shared a man named Jon Jandai is sharing his story about how he found happiness. He grew up poor with very little, went to a university and was looking at the way people were eating with plastic and throwing it out, and studying to build on the land, and that's not what makes him happy and he left. He went back home and did things the way that makes sense to him. He talks about how people spend so much money on houses that they have to pay off their debt for 30 years, but he can just spend two hours a day stacking bricks on each other and have a house in two months and comparing himself to the man who spends money they have to pay off for years and say "compared to him i have 29 years and ten months of free time". He also talks about how he would save his money for a month to buy a nice pair of pants and then he came to the realization that why spend that time and money on a pair of pants "why do we need to fallow fashion you'll never catch up". In the end of the video he says a few very inspiring things; " i feel free when i think like this...i don't worry about much and doesn't have fear he doesn't need to make himself like anyone else he is number on.. how do we make it easy? we don't know how to make it easy anymore because we complicate everything." This man has overcome transcendentalism and found happiness in himself.
"TEDxDoiSuthep-Jon Jandai". Youtube. TEXDxTALKS, Aug 3, 2011.
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