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Misunderstood – Weston’s Response

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misunderstand: fail to interpret or understand the words or actions of someone.

One of the greatest protest songs of the post-civil rights era was Abraham Martin and John, referring to three great ‘misunderstood’ heroes. Why is it that society seems to shun greatness? What is it in change that scares so many away from it? It is a common phrase – ‘change is inevitable’. The proof is in the details; change happens. Change is always happening and it is impossible to avoid.

However, the only way change happens is when people fight for it. You can’t say that change is bad until you have brushed up on your facts – look at what change has given us. Without misunderstood people, important changes in our world would never have happened, and will never happen again. Without them what would our world be like?

Change is inevitable in this world; but only if there are those willing to fight for it.

Misunderstood

Author: Deirdre Smith

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson knew over one-hundred and fifty years ago that what he wrote was true. Through every generation, great people arise from the ground and show the world something incredible. These people are always, no doubt about it, misunderstood.

That’s how some teenagers feel. The ones that are popular in school are the ones people feel they can relate to on an outer level, therefore they cling to them. Their ‘golden circle’ quickly fades after college to a dull brown, and the popular kids become old news. About this same time, the really misunderstood kids rise up and achieve their full potential. They go on to change our world and become our nation’s leaders. They are the ones that find the cures to deadly diseases and make great discoveries.

When Copernicus realized that the sun was actually the center of the universe as opposed to Earth, no one really believed him. They didn’t understand why he would even think to prove something set in stone as incorrect. He understood what he was doing, and that was all that mattered to him.

One day, the misunderstood kids who only had a small circle of people they could trust will rise to show their true greatness, whether people get it or not.

Reliving the Past

If there was one part of your life that you could relive what what would it be? Perhaps it’s the second grade when you got your first “B” or the sixth-grade when you had your first crush. Maybe you want to fix something during those years. There are some parts of my past that I would relive for that exact reason. It would be much easier though to just forget about them.

“It’s history…”

Perhaps a phrase you used to comfort a friend or to convince someone to calm down. What ever your use for the words the intent is very true. We live in the present, whom ever lives in the past may not see the present and those that live in the future have missed it. Kids are dreamers and look to the future, sometimes missing what they will soon want back. Doesn’t it make sense to live in the present so that we don’t have to relive it later?