Is It Better To Be Misunderstood?

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I agree with what Emerson has to say about being misunderstood, because nobody understood Edison and his theories he had, but look at him, he ended up creating the light bulb and allowing light during the night. I believe it is better to be misunderstood by people when you are brainstorming the next big thing, but sometimes it is hard, because nobody understands or gets what you are trying to do. “The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.” Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature. I think this means that stars are apart of nature and it is something that you can not take from it such as you can from the ground. So every night when the stars come out it becomes beautiful to us all over again and we are stuck in a trance of awe. So I agree …show more content…
Like for instance, there are certain unsaid rules around litchfield about what to wear, how to look, and how to act, but most of us do not conform to those rules. I see girls with black clothes, bright sapphire contacts, thick black makeup, and an attitude the size of Texas. There are a few who dress like that and they express who they are, or who they want to be. Those girls are not conformist and do not follow society’s rules, they break away from what society says they are supposed to look like and do what they want to do and look how they want to look. Transcendentalism carries on to society today and it may be for the better and it may be for the