Cultura Inglesa - Marcos: 1st composition (Sep 2006)

Magazine article for the writing task:

We are becoming a society of cynics, money-grabbers, people who sole purpose in life is furthering self-interest. The sad truth is that there are no longer inspirational people among us; manipulation of the media and wealth creation have become paramount for those in public life; few take risks for the sake of others, or push for knowledge without anticipating financial reward. Where are the role models of today?

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My response to it:

Dear Sir,

For a start, I would appreciate to clarify that the reason of my writing as a response to the article about role models lies in my disagreement with what has been stated, solely ruling out the existence of inspirational people to be followed nowadays. We do have, at least, one person who has come to my mind and has to be mentioned herein, one prince of a kingdom in ancient India, Siddhartha, and most worldwide known as Shakyamuni Buddha.

Even though He was born amid all sorts of luxury yet before Christ, He had always been considering about leaving His palace so as to take a pro-active approach to attaining the finding the reality of mankind’s existence in this life crammed full of burdens, and so did he. To illustrate this point, we have barely enough information in books to go through and check that out, namely, to make sure that He weeded out His life as a prince of an one and only kingdom to undertake a new type of life that would soon lead him to the major breakthrough that humans had never faced before, the discovery of the truth of our existence in this world.

After leaving His palace, He took up an ascetic way of life, living as a monk and going over a deep process of meditation, exploiting the inner universe the humanity bear inside and fending off all possible positive and negative thoughts and feelings that could make him stray from the right path, steering clear of being doomed to failure owing to that and so keeping Himself on the right track that would ultimately guide Him to Enlightenment and so, the definitely cessation of any kind of suffering.

As a matter of fact, not only did He follow an unbearable path for people unwilling to succeed in life as a being who deserves salvation and peace for the eternity, but also He did achieve the very last point in progress and evolution as a human being, teaching everybody that what He has done is plenty possible to be done by anyone else strongly willing for so. Shall we ever be able to quote such an inspirational person throughout History?

Yours faithfully