“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Excerpt From: Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Essays — First Series.”
The point is.. I confess it was my fault to give other's thought a place straight in my brain. Right after that incident, I immediately recalled what Mr. Emerson had written. I should have relied on my own thought, to believe that what is true for me in my private heart is true for all men. Such a bittersweet lesson.