Sunday, December 7, 2008

Post 3

An Emersonian friend, in my opinion, is someone who is honest with everyone. Someone who is not afraid to tell someone that they don't agree. You can tell them what they did wrong or something is in their hair. Also to be an Emersonian friend you have to accept who I am and be happy with who I am.

I feel like, or like to think that I live like an Emersonian friend everyday. Maybe not the whole day. In some parts of the day I know some of the people I encounter would not like me to be honest with them. They could be offended by what I might say to them. But they would not understand that I was only saying it to be nice or to tell them that in case they cared about it.

On the day that I chose to try to be an Emersonian friend was on Saturday. The day of formal and earlier that day I had water polo all day long. All that day I was around people that I know appreciate who I am. And then there are some that I feel like that don't understand me. Nothing exciting happened during water polo. Then I got ready for formal and went to dinner. I was running late because of water polo. I think hunger got in the way of me trying to focus on being an Emersonian friend. So I wasn't much of one at dinner. Then formal came. At then at the dance so much was going on it was hard to be an Emersonian friend again. 

1 comment:

Anafrancesca C said...

I love how you open the post by explaining what an Emersonian friend should be. I totally agree with what you said about having to be completely open and honest.

I also think that you are an Emersonian friend, which at times may not have been what I wanted to hear, like the being completely honest, but I know that it's because you're being nice...and that you're not doing it to be mean or anything.

I disagree that you weren't like Emerson during the dance, because you did try to get everyone to dance together-which I thought was really nice...very Emersonian!