Thoreau then says “ Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” To clarify he says we should focus less on issues not worth focusing on so that we can concentrate on what really matters. I do go along with what Emerson is saying on the other hand I do not believe that people can just stop worry about everything and everybody because we worry about the unworthy worries. Also because we value the opinions of others and because of that we so gracefully base our lives on them. Again we as a people are being run by the materialist things that we do not pay attention to what really matters, which is life, so with that being said this is also another reason why it is not
Thoreau then says “ Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” To clarify he says we should focus less on issues not worth focusing on so that we can concentrate on what really matters. I do go along with what Emerson is saying on the other hand I do not believe that people can just stop worry about everything and everybody because we worry about the unworthy worries. Also because we value the opinions of others and because of that we so gracefully base our lives on them. Again we as a people are being run by the materialist things that we do not pay attention to what really matters, which is life, so with that being said this is also another reason why it is not