Transcendentalism Part 2

The Situation: Chris, a college senior, has just been accepted to the best law school in the country. His parents, Sheila, his wife, and his brothers and sisters are very excited for Chris since he has wanted to become a lawyer for his entire life. Chris isn't so excited though. He has realized that he would rather be a high school teacher than a lawyer. Chris would have to go back to school to get his teaching certificate.

In this situation I would do just as a transcendentalist would. I believe you should follow your heart over logic. A transcendentalist would definitely go with their higher feeling or their enlightenment from god. I truly believe they lived off of gut feeling, quit like the hippie culture. If it feels good, then why not do it.

“Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world" I believe he is saying, that if you are happy and content with your own trade, no matter what it be, and you are truly happy with it, then you rule the world in your own way. Who cares what everybody else thinks or says of you, you are happy despite them and their blurry views on you.