Self-Reliance Vs Transcendentalism

It's important to be yourself, even if you're different from everyone else. This is a belief that transcendentalists believed. During the transcendentalism era, people thought that everyone should be themselves because everyone is beautiful in their own special way. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the father of transcendentalism, wrote a story called "Self-Reliance." "Self-Reliance" is about being yourself and relying on yourself and your own thoughts. "Self-Reliance" includes my personal favorite transcendentalism quote, "imitation is suicide." Transcendentalists believed in being yourself and relying on yourself even if you're different from everyone else, just like how Selena Gomez sings about how everyone is perfect in their own way, and how One Direction sings about how they found a beautiful girl that doesn't know she's beautiful.
Everyone is different in their own way and you shouldn't be afraid of who you really are. People shouldn't judge each other for being the person they really are because at least they have the courage to be themselves and not try to be like everyone around them. Emerson wrote "Self-Reliance". Self-Reliance is about being able to rely on yourself and you have to be yourself to do that. Self-Reliance says, "To be great is to be misunderstood." This quote means that the great people are the people that stay themselves. The people that stay themselves are referred to as the misunderstood. Thoreau showed an example of being himself by isolating himself in the woods to write the journal entry of "Investigation at Walden". This story is about his experiences in nature and the sights and beauty he saw. He stayed himself by going to live in nature, which is what he loved. This belief of self-reliance is shown in many modern day songs. The idea of self-reliance is an important belief that everyone should believe because staying yourself is good for you and everyone around