Journal 21

Emerson in self reliance talks about how everyone should reallyworry about themselves and not otheers. His reasoning was that if everyone worries about themselves then their is nothing to worry about because we will all be good people. Then we will all be good people and there wont be any bad people since we are all accountable to ourselves. Ben Franklin believed in a lot of the samething but in not like exact word for word. He was really big on self improving and stuff but he didnt seem to care nearly as much about the other people when we read that stuff about franklin he seemed almost like he was a little bit of a sort of standoffish kind of guy the guy who is worried about himself and doesnt really care about other people. Not like he is a jerk of anything but he just doesnt really worry about other people. Not in a stuck up way that people might think of it bbut sort of the same way i think about othe rpeople, i am nice to them but i really dont care about what they think or anything like that. I try to be self reliant and all the junk so i can sort of understand how each man feels about the whole self reliance thing and all that good stff. These two guys are pretty similar but they also seem like they could didsagree on somepretty big issues and stuff so thatd be interesting too i guess.