Sunday, March 20, 2011

Thoughts

Three days after I met my new brother Ben, he asked me a question that made me... take to him a lot more plesantly than I might have otherwise. While climbing to the Draconfelts, out of no particular conversation he goes.. "Is there something in the world that you don't understand? Anything... around you, in you, in other people, that you just don't know, and want to know?"
I was surprised by this, but grateful...
"Yeah," I started... "I don't understand why people live life for other's expectations. I don't know why people live so unhappily, thinking that they are restricted by so many things, but really they only are being held back by themselves."
"It's all fear I guess, isn't it?" 
The thought slipped through his lips.
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" 'What is it they fear? What is it they hate so much, those who love to crawl? And why?'
'When I find the answer to that,' Dominique relpied 'I'll make my peace with the world.' "


(An excert from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand)

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