We hate the one who does what he really loves || Acharya Prashant, on 'The Fountainhead' (2019)

Henry Cameron said to Roark,

“You love your work. God help you, you love it. And that’s the curse. That’s the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That’s the only kind they fear. I don’t know why.”

“You’re opening yourself up, Roark, for each and every one of them.”

~ The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.

Question: Dear Acharya Ji, Pranaam! What does ‘opening yourself up’ about Roark is Cameron talking about?

Acharya Prashant Ji: It’s vulnerability that Cameron (one of main characters in Ayn Rand’s ‘The Fountainhead’) is talking about.

All of us live lives of hidden, quiet, silent indignation, humiliation. Internally all of us know that we are not living rightly, internally all of us know that we have surrendered to the wrong forces. Internally we are all ashamed of ourselves.