I find it interesting that I Envy the kid with the legs and feet that are bare & I Strive for the complete waxed body and gorgeous life of luxury. I’m fine with this I realized that you can not stop moving forward if the axis has water constantly falling on it that if it stops then fear isolation alone and confused and in fear and frustrated. Walk with confidence forward with passion and fear and fall down and still rise with gratitude of you’re the scrapes you have suffered. This is my first valued thought.- Joshua
Rousseau had written. Whereas the philosophes saw man in common, that is, as creatures endowed with Reason, the Romantics saw diversity and uniqueness. That is, those traits which set one man apart from another, and traits which set one nation apart from another. Discover yourself -- express yourself, cried the Romantic artist. Play your own music, write your own drama, paint your own personal vision, live, love and suffer in your own way. So instead of the motto, "Sapere aude," "Dare to know!" the Romantics took up the battle cry, "Dare to be!" The Romantics were rebels and they knew it. They dared to march to the tune of a different drummer -- their own. The Romantics were passionate about their subjectivism, about their tendency toward introspection. Rousseau’s autobiography, The Confessions (1781), began with the following words:I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent and which will never find an imitator. I desire to set before my fellows the likeness of a man in all the truth of nature, and that man myself. Myself alone! I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
DREAMER
