“To live is to be separated from what we were in order to
approach what we are going to be in the mysterious future.” Octavio Paz, The
Labyrinth of Solitude, 195.
I think that this is one of the most profound statements
that I have read in a textbook during all of my college career and one that
rings true throughout almost all mythology, theology, and religions. As we
start out on the journey of life we don’t know anything and we progress and
learn by our own experiences what we need to in order to get through this life;
we leave behind our lack of knowledge and experience for that knowledge and
experience that makes us who we will become. When I read this the clear ties to
the plan of salvation penetrated my mind. I began to think of all that I have
learned about the gospel and how it is a gospel of progression and how we will
continue to progress through the eternities and I felt extremely excited to
move forward. As I continued the daily reading in Victors and Vanquished I read
about Cortez and everything that he went through. Online I found that Cortez
came from a distinguished family, but was a sickly child who dropped out of a
fine university. Given our society’s outlook on dropping out of school I would
assume that his choice was not looked on very highly and he was probably
considered a wild and adventurous kid who would probably not amount to anything
on that big boat going all around the world. He left his home in Medellin a “nobody”
and finished his life as a historic figure that we all now study and research.
Just as Hernan Cortez left behind what he was to become something greater we
too can and must do the same thing.
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