Talking to the dean, Giancarlo Ibargüen, was refreshing: finding someone who thinks like you, and fights for the same cause is literally empowering. Giancarlo had the mental-spark to take me to a beautiful bronze sculpture--UFM's pride--, the Atlas; and just below it, I was able to delve into one of Ayn Rand's passages from Atlas Shrugged, which captivated my soul upon reading it--once again--.
| UFM's Atlas. Beautiful! |
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”
"Despondency's" main topic is individualism, as it is with all my works, including "El Lóbrego Pastor", my masterpiece in Spanish.
The above-mentioned titles explore the philosophical world of how an individual can obtain enlightenment through self-discovery; of how an individual can find his sole source of contentment by delving into himself. In the end, the struggle for integrity is a great one, a battle that must be one by none other than yourself.
