Leaves of Grass 4: An agrovating life one has..

I was reading Poem 4 of Leaves of Grass, and all it talked about was the bad parts of a stressful life. That he suffers, that he does, that he does't. Everything is bad, like the lack of money, the sickness of himself or his family. He uses a very stressfull tone, which I assimilated to a girl on a friday night getting ready for a party. That she doesn't know what to wear, if she looks good on it, what does the rest think. Whitman as well worries too much about those things, when he says "My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues", as if he needed someone else's opinion about himself. This is, for me, a bad thing, because as the word self- confidence says, it is self. You don't need anyone to say how you look, because what matters is how you feel. No one is going to love you for how they see you, they are supposed to love on how you are. He apart only sees the bad features of life. That is not a healthy lifestyle.