Henry David Thoreau's 'Being True?'

“Being True”
Being true to yourself is the most important thing that can happen in your life. Thoreau said “Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness.” This quote is saying you can do whatever you want but ask yourself is that really gonna make you happy because if not you just be living nothing more. Emerson said “A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.” He is trying to say that you can be doing something you like and it would mean nothing to you but if you do what you love you might feel rewarded with what you have done. In my words these quotes mean that if your not happy with what you're doing then why are you doing it. My Grandpa exemplifies being true to yourself by making me think about life decisions because he’s been through so much and can probably relate to that decision.
My grandpa is a very hard working that never gave up on anything or anyone. His way of being true to himself is doing what he loves which was working. But he would always ask himself is all
The path im struggling to follow is trying to get an education and becoming a counselor for children. I want my authentic life to be a daily job that i go to everyday and i get a paycheck every two weeks. Some things that get in the way of that is people telling me I can’t do it or when I feel like I can’t do it. Being a counselor inspires me that I could help children by talking to them and giving them advice about what they’re going through. But all of the people that bring me down are the ones that are going to see me having a job and getting