The wisdom from “FOUNTAINHEAD”
There are books you read and forget, others that you read and remember — only a few that you read, re-read and still find something new everytime you read it. Fountainhead was one of those special books for me.
The world we live in advocates putting others before self. And we’re raised to believe that. But can you really do something for others before you do something for yourself? I’ve never admired the word selfless more than now. Split it — self & less … it just goes to show that you have nothing (less) of your self to even give in the first place. There are people who think that money/financial help is all you can give to others. I beg to differ. Money is the least valuable thing you can give to a person. Anything of more value would have a little of you(self) in it. And you can only do something for others if you’re also doing something for yourself. And this thought of being selfish being a bad trait is so ingrained in us — that we sometimes forget to do things that make us happy. No one is going to care about you more than you do. We need courage to put ourselves first.
Fountainhead takes us to a world that is so blinded and manipulated that only a fair few can spot excellence. And even these special few — push the geniuses down so that the world never gets to recognize how special things can be. For if they did — what would happen to the masses? The hardest kind of people to restrain are the ones who know their own worth. And in order to gain power over the masses what do the power-seekers do? They encourage people to pursue something that they’re not even good at, validate the bad work, and make them feel good about themselves. In the end, what do you have — a world that can be controlled by the whims and fancies of the few that are in power.
Fountainhead shows us how “being selfless” can potentially ruin a person and make you live secondhand. If you can’t be selfish in your personal equations or in your work — how can you even give your best. And without your best you’re no different from any other person out there. We have so many “other people out there” giving us mediocrity — & us being the selfless & accepting species we are — we encourage, build, nurture and thrive on mediocrity. And in a world like that — will you be able to recognize or encourage a real genius or even push yourself to be one?
