The Secret of Prosperity

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The author, a young adult man, presents the how and what of the means he used to achieve
what he considers his success in life: the fulfillment of his desire. The path by which he found his
way of doing things was not without reflection, nor without work on himself, in addition to the commendable
effort to acquire a trade, his own, one that matched his desire.
The author teaches how each individual, in a given moment, decides,
their action and their life, not without the gift that life provides to those who are on their way to
achievement. Thus, when he read this text to some friends, each one recalled not only the moment when
they chose their course, their path and the people who placed the pivotal point of their encounter, but also
they mentioned the phrase, very singular, the motto, so to speak, of their life.
The use of a particular motto, I have also found it in literature, in a character that I have
called the hopeless one, since it is the title of a work by Álvaro Mutis, a writer born
in Bogotá, Colombia, which, by following the trail of the references the author gives us there, and
reading those other works, has helped me, not without my craft, obviously, to identify the profile of the
hopeless one, not only in the works by the cited author but in other works as well. Which leads me
to think that the human being knows the way, and that he has been designing it, fencing it off, through
various means: Art, science, religions. It is up to each person to find it.
There is a human subject who achieves, at an earlier age than others, the encounter with his desire. Knowing
what one desires is the most important step in life, for it is a choice and a decision, let us say, unconscious,
but one of which the subject in question is aware.
Given that step, the human subject, or rather, the decision thus tied, determines each of the
paths that in that sense, from desire to fulfillment, must be traveled.
The author Mark Fischer presents in his work, in a spontaneous and human way that will lead the
reader to reflect on the paths they themselves have taken with a view toward achieving their dearest
desires. I emphasize with special importance the moment when Mark Fischer notes,
having realized what one can and must ask for. And not asking for anything to fill the
stomach, or a passing whim, but something supremely more important, a key, a clue,
for the realization of the desire. The importance of this moment lies in realizing that
our path is in our hands and that, nevertheless, something is not going right, something we do not
know, something we cannot do, but that others exist, that others are like us, that others
others have experienced, or are experiencing, difficulties similar to ours, and that, therefore, when looking
for those who, in our view, may have been able to provide a solution to that human impasse,
surely, if we search successfully, we will receive from such people a gift. The very gift that,
Mark Fischer gives us, to those of us who manage to read him. By this final act, that of making his
gift, he tells us that we too must return that gift to life.
The greatest gain from encountering desire and its fulfillment is life itself. This is the
moment in which we earn a living, because we desire to live it in our own way, with our
singular way of understanding it and therefore of inventing it. Earning a living is then the desire
to live it, for having invented it, and insofar as such, to transmit it.
Margarita Mosquera Zapata