Emerson Day 1

It is Day 1 of my Emerson assignment. I was asked to live by a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance essay for a week and observe how I approach my life differently as well as see how people respond to me. The quote that I chose is "Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."To me, the quote means, being brutally honest with people in real life, even if it means contradicting my past beliefs of the aspect in question. I do not have much to report so far as it is only the first day of the assignment, however, I have already observed that most people do not notice a difference in my demeanor. This is both good and bad because it means that they think I am honest with them all the time, but that also means that they cannot tell the few times when I'm not saying what I'm thinking. Normally, I would say that I am honest with people about everything and if I am thinking something else that could possibly hurt someone's feelings then I will keep it to myself rather than say it out loud. I am not quite sure if that counts as lying. It's just not saying what I'm thinking. In that way I guess it's more of a half-truth...? I also have told some people (my sister and my closest friends) that I'm living by a quote for a week as a disclaimer that if anything seems particularly harsh, that it's because I'm not allowed to have a filter for a week. This may be hard for me because I am not used to just always spewing harsh realities at people regardless of if I hurt them or not, so I may have a bit of trouble with this. I guess we'll see!