"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is a close comparison of the the story of the monkey king and the little boy Jin, in the book "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang. The story of the monkey not wanting to be monkey but be a god and the little boy who is out casted by being a chinese boy. This quote allows you to take a look inside the beauty of being who you are and not being something else because when you lose the true you, a part of you is lost in the crowd. You can't be ashamed of what is attended for you because you will never lose what is truly intended for you, it just may take some time to realize the beauty of being yourself.
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