"It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine: it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: It is their own souls." -Ayn Rand
The people, who I think understand me well, have asked me many times to read Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". They think I will connect well to Howard Roark, the protagonist of this novel. I guess I suffer from some kind of dyslexia and therefore I have to try very hard to read a book. May be this is the reason I never tried reading this novel.
Finally, today I started reading it and as I went through the introduction part I had a feeling which was extraordinary but wonderful. I don't know if there is a way to put this feeling in words. It's like being in love…pure, selfless love. And I have always believed that any human feeling related to love has some selfish motive behind it at some level….so this is special. As I read it I literally had this very wide smile on my face…I felt that there is an energy flowing in me, I felt very confident...it was like I always knew Ayn Rand. There are many difficult questions I face and though I know the answers, they always look abstract. In few pages she gave form to those answers. Reading her is like a self-realization...I am happy even if I sound very selfish or self-indulgent writing all this…as that connects me more to what Ayn Rand believes in.
On this blog only couple of days back I wrote something titled "Parallel Universes". One of my friends found it scary and weird. I couldn't explain it to her then. But I can now, for that I will use a quote from a play written by Ayn Rand -
"I want to see, real living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion. I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry"
I know now, why I feel enlightened and like being in love because I truly believe now that "someone, somewhere, who wants it, too" always existed and will continue to exist…
PS- I have not started reading the Novel yet…but I will.
3 comments:
whts real world acc 2 u tht u want 2 see? n wid wht fuel spirit stayus alive?
before reading ayn rand, u should first play bio-shock.
its quite educational.
To begin with, reading this is yet another reason that i shud finally read the book..and tho a huge pile of pending reading awaits me.. i think i shud get this one and atlas shrugged too, soon..
That is all what we live for.. “to see, real living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as an illusion” tho most of us live thru life without even realising it..therez a world around we all know.. but derez a world within too, that rarely anyone opens the door to.. it’s like pandora’s box.. full of questions and answers and unexpected, unknown things... tho bizarre to some, it is what keeps u going..
hope u find tym to read the book..
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