I Celebrate Myself

I really don't understand as to how the title "I celebrate myself" is related to transcendentalist or transcendentalism. But I guess writing this blog post can help me and maybe you, the reader, as to understand how the title "I celebrate myself" relate to the Transcendentalist or Transcendentalism.

In order to understand about Transcendentalist, it is best to talk about how they were formed since their formation was the basis for their beliefs. Couple of their beliefs was how you shouldn't be following the fad that everyone is going by, but follow your own fad that you want to go by. Another one would be that Society has corrupted the individuality of individuals.

Transcendentalism first emerged among the New England congregationalism, but were different in two ways with Calvinism, whom were a major branch of Protestantism who follow the theological tradition and forms of Christian practices of John Calvin.  The two differences that Transcendentalism and Calvinism had was that Transcendentalism rejected predestination, a doctrine that stated that all events were willed by God and the founder of Calvinism, John Calvin interpreted the biblical predestination to mean that God willed eternal damnation for some people and salvation for the others, and emphasized on the unity, but not the Trinity of God, unlike Calvinism.

 Transcendentalism wasn't considered to be formed as transcendentalism until the 18th century during rationalism, developed as a reaction  for rationalism. On September 8, 1836 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ripley and Emerson finds the Transcendental Club which is what allow people to call the artists, writers, and composers that create pieces that expresses the feelings of the American thoughts or the existential issues that were at hand during the American Renaissance or before the American Renaissance, or even the social changes that were going on and the lifestyle that  people had before as to the lifestyle that people were living in during the American Renaissance or when the change of lifestyle started to happen, transcendentalist.      

The writing on the history of transcendentalist or transcendentalism doesn't seem to help me or maybe also you, the reader, to understand the title of the blog post "I Celebrate Myself". Guess I will take another path to help us both understand. But first, the phrase "I celebrate myself" comes from one of Walt Whitman's poems called "Song of Myself", that focuses on three themes, the idea of yourself, the idea of yourself from other people, and the idea of yourself from nature and the universe. So basically the poem focuses on the individuality of a person from three different point of view- the view on yourself from the perspective of yourself, the view of yourself from the perspective of others around you, and the view of yourself from the perspective of the universe, the way how the world views you. Two of these types of point of views on self corrupts individuality according to the transcendentalism ideology and my opinion on individuality. Take a guess on which ones..... If you guessed that it was the point of view from others and the world, then you're correct. These two types of point of views on self corrupts individuality because the view from others is what influences you, yourself to copy what others do, imitation my friend, is what we call it. This doesn't allow you to show you true colors but allows you to show pretty colors that your peers or the people around only like. You have no sense of style, personality, and BASICALLY NO LIFE!! The view from the world is basically the view from society itself. Society in my opinion is what influences your peers to go away from their individuality and influence you like the way society influence them to remove their individuality. Society has its own norms that is what allows people to consider whether it is to be consider to be acceptable or plain weird, and everyone knows that it is best to fit in then to not and so everyone will throw away their own tastes for a taste that society believes is the best for everyone. Like for teens, you can only be consider accepted if you're wearing some famous brand name attire or having the latest phone or technological device or even having accounts for the latest social media websites.