Polar Quixote: when madness becomes necessary
There are struggles born from power.
And others… born from discomfort.
The life of Miguel de Cervantes was not an easy one.
A soldier —as I once was— wounded in battle, held captive for years, at times forgotten by his own era…
he did not write from comfort, but from adversity.
Don Quixote is the son of adversity,of the kind I see every day in life,
and that in Antarctica takes shape through cold and wind.
Don Quixote was a man who chose to see the world
not as it was… but as it should be.
A man who fought windmills,
not because he was mad,
but because he refused to accept a meaningless reality.
Many called him mad.
We all carry a Quixote within us.
But perhaps what was truly dangerous…
was doing nothing.