Self Relience

As a person who has been to over 41 states, 35 countries and 5 continents I really enjoyed Self Reliance. One of the greatest passages in Emerson's Self Reliance are his thoughts on traveling. “Traveling is a fool's paradise.” The average person feels often feels entitled to a vacation. Emerson combats this expressing that the greatest vacation one can take is right where he lives. The vacationer often travels to escape sadness or to find relief. Emerson points that this only enables a man to find sadness in two places, home and now where he has traveled. A person of true character can work to resolve these differences where they are rooted, saving time and money and still getting to dream about where ever they want to go.