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Ayn Rand on Love

Today is valentine's day, we are celebrating romantic love. But, what exactly is romantic love? According to Ayn Rand, “Love is a response to values. . . One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person’s character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the  style  of his soul — the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.” While most people think that love is an expression of unselfishness, Rand’s perspective is the complete opposite. In  The Virtue of Selfishness , she writes that, “To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love — because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” She also writes that: One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal,

The power of storytelling

Everytime, I tell a story. I change. The people who listen change too. I am coding within our DNA, the possibility of a new way of being. Little do we know that through this story, not only are we changing the future, We are changing our past too. The war in our mind begins. The story may have ignited a memory, a ghost from the past that needs to be redefined. Here is the power of storytelling, shifting the paradigm