Owning Yourself

 “Yes-en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef.”

      This famous quote from the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, written by Mark Twain, discusses what it means to own yourself, and why it’s important. Owning yourself is one of the most important things one can do for themselves, for when one owns themselves, they don’t let others push them around, and only tell themselves what to do, and what to believe. The importance of owning yourself is that this builds who that person is, and what they want to do; however, a person can still take other’s thoughts into consideration, and also improve that way, because if not, they’ll be to self centered yo even acknowledge the people around them

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