The Wyatt’s Torch

I still remember how I felt when I was at a point in the book Atlas Shrugged. The moment was when Ellis Wyatt – a self-made multimillionaire – left everything aside for ______. (I don’t want to spoil the fun of the book if you have not read it yet). Before leaving, he lit one of the oil-well he used to extract with fire. I can imagine the smile on his face and the fire inside his heart. That is the moment, I re-live again and again.
That oil-well burnt for months and anyone could see the fire from miles away. People called it – The Wyatt’s Torch!

I remember a quote which goes with this well –

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn!

John Wesley

The Wyatt’s Torch

21/03/2019

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders – What would you tell him?”

I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?”

To shrug.”

– John Galt (Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand)
21/03/2019