"Good painters don't paint like this. But I paint like this." And it's okay to paint the way you paint because imitation is suicide. It is unbelievably hot today: it's now almost 9 pm and it's positively sweltering. Oh, how I miss the London weather, rain and all. The London summer is good for someone like myself, it's the winter that drags me down. And I'm not going to ever be one of those types of people who can spend 6 months here and six months there. Forget the fact that I'm dirt poor, it wouldn't be environmentally sound at all. So Rogerian theory tells us to be who we are, not to please others, not as we 'ought' to be. Be the fluid process of who we are in this moment and embrace all the contradictions this being entails. That's almost exactly what Emerson is saying in his essay. Be who you are in the moment, forgetting all of who you were before. But, what happens when you are trying to be 'in the moment of being...