APAD: Marching to a different drummer

Meaning: To follow your own path and to live/behave in an individualistic way.

 

Background:

 

This expression traces to a passage in Henry David Thoreau's 1854 work, Walden:

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears

a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured

or far away."

 

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I heard about Thoreau but haven't read Walden.

I really should and wonder if it's still modern.

His mom did his laundry, some once claimed to see,

And the guy was not the stoic he was made out to be.

Maybe I'd be better off studying Cook, Langdon.

所有跟帖： 

• 我行我素 -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 10:30:00

• Not recommended in collective, hierarchical societies. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 11:56:52

• 走自己的路，讓別人去說吧！ -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 11:23:29

• Who gave that advice? Some famous poet, right? -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 11:57:55

• 據說是但丁。但有人考證說有異議！ -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 12:43:31

• I thought it was a Chinese poet, in exile. Not sure. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 12:54:04

• 絕對不是中文詩。我看到的爭議說但丁的原話並不是這樣的。 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 15:50:01

• I can believe you. Just read sth about Dante recently. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 16:27:57

• 想起來了：走自己的路，讓別人無路可走 :-))) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 21:13:36

• 這肯定是中國詩人說的！ -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 21:17:00

• 這是中國人編的，但不是中國詩人寫的。 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/09/2023 postreply 07:59:58

• 比但丁編的好！ -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/09/2023 postreply 10:20:25

• 占位點讚，晚上來看。：） -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 12:50:04

• Henry David Thoreau's 1854 work, Walden！！！ -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 19:27:20

• 暑假去了梭羅的瓦爾登湖。還是挺有感觸的。 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 19:28:17

• 在線閱讀版本。這是中文的，英文的也有在線 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (205 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 19:30:38

• 具體點。什麽感觸？這樣兒的還敢處？ -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 20:12:07

• 還是中庸一下 As a compromise, -衛寧- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 21:01:41

• sometimes follow others, sometimes follow yourself :)) -衛寧- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 21:02:20

• No problem. 想幹嘛幹嘛，愛咋地咋地 :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 21:09:59

• Great poem at the end! I googled Cook and then remember -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 23:20:20

• Mushrooms grown at Seattle that you once mentioned:)） -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/08/2023 postreply 23:21:40

• Thanks. I learned 'nurse log' from Langdon Cook :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/09/2023 postreply 09:48:19

• and his name came up in that little limerick. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/09/2023 postreply 09:49:00

• being able to afford that is very lucky :--)) -Oona- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/09/2023 postreply 06:44:56

• Yes and it's often more than luck :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/09/2023 postreply 09:49:42