Wind, Sand, and Stars

At break of day your comrades have been jam-packed with criticism: inform me, of what had they been defrauded? What had they found in themselves that was once approximately to teach itself, and that now they wept for? What, Sergeant, have been the visions that ruled your future and justified your risking your existence during this experience? Your lifestyles, your purely treasure! we need to dwell many years sooner than we turn into males. Very slowly will we plait the braid of friendships and affections. We research slowly. We compose our production slowly. And if we die too early we're in a feeling cheated out of our percentage. we need to stay many years to fulfil ourselves. yet you, by way of the grace of a trial within the evening which stripped you of all that was once no longer intrinsic, you came across a mysterious creature born of your self. nice was once this creature, and not shall you fail to remember him. And he's your self. you've had the unexpected feel of enjoyable your self within the rapid of discovery, and you have got realized without notice that the longer term is now much less useful for the buildup of treasures. That creature inside of you who opened his wings isn't really certain via ties to perishable issues; he is of the same opinion to die for all males, to be swallowed up in anything common. a very good wind swept via you and introduced from the matrix the drowsing prince you sheltered - guy inside you. you're the equivalent of the musician composing his track, of the physicist extending the frontier of data, of all those that construct the highways over which we march to deliverance. Now you're unfastened to gamble with dying. What have you ever now to lose? allow us to say you have been satisfied in Barcelona: not anything extra can wreck that happiness. you've reached an altitude the place all loves are of an analogous stuff. maybe you suffered in the world, felt your self by myself on the earth, knew no safe haven to that you may possibly fly? What of that! Sergeant, this present day you've been welcomed domestic by way of love. VI No guy can draw a unfastened breath who doesn't proportion with different males a typical and disinterested perfect. lifestyles has taught us that love doesn't consist in staring at at one another yet in having a look outward jointly within the comparable course. there isn't any comradeship other than via union within the similar excessive attempt. Even in our age of fabric wellbeing and fitness this needs to be so, else how should still we clarify the happiness we suppose in sharing our final crust with others within the wilderness? No sociologist's textbook can succeed by contrast truth. each pilot who has flown to the rescue of a comrade in misery understands that each one joys are useless compared to this one. And this, it can be, is reasons why the realm this day is tumbling approximately our ears. it's accurately simply because this type of fulfilment is promised each one people through his faith, that males are infected at the present time. we all, in phrases that contradict one another, convey at backside a similar exalted impulse. What units us opposed to each other isn't really our goals - all of them come to an identical factor - yet our equipment, that are the fruit of our assorted reasoning. allow us to, then, chorus from astonishment at what males do. One guy unearths that his crucial manhood comes alive on the sight of self-sacrifice, cooperative attempt, a rigorous imaginative and prescient of justice, manifested in an anarchists' cellar in Barcelona.