The Voluntary Aspect Of Leadership

Seek in the light of your own life story all the necessary resources that give you the force to act in accordance with the “responses” you receive from within your own heart.

I’ve talked to you about writer Cella Serghi numerous times. In the period of her personality training, beyond the pride of acting as a high-ranking person, wrestling a destiny that will focus on the notion of “admiration”, the writer emphasizes the tendency to somehow justify her existence and to express in a direct, naive or provocative form her own emotions.

We, the readers, assist to a sort of literary artistic composition, indicating as a landmark a spiritual and cultural creation in which the heart, like deep water, can be felt only at a glance in the past, in the face of the influences of a pure conscience at half the distance between regret and happiness, between consolation, delusion and fun, when the appearances of the world suffocate the hope of possessing the beloved object called literature or art through the eyes of a masculinized and prejudiced society.

Are you able to capture in writing the essence of things "that cannot be told in words", like an artist who immortalizes the fleeting moments of life through creation?

She was saying at a moment of great emotion, equating to the manifestation of a deja-vu, the feeling that she has experienced this very powerful experience through journeys made throughout the world and through her particularly important writings:

On this earth, when I could not speak, I learned to listen to the pains of the sea, when I could not read, I found out from shards of stories of Dacians and Getae. In the language only children and scholars understand, I was talking to grandfather’s shards, to my shells. Ovidius walked here, here he said his woes and the carved his “sadness” in stone.

Here I learned to see and love what surrounds me, here I learned my ABCs and all that cannot be written and said with words, from here I took everything I kept and wanted to keep.

Can you give meaning to your personal experiences that help you become the “Author of your own life story” in a context of determination and attempts of the Self to discover itself by reference to an aesthetic formula?

Can you be more than an empty space? Can you bea core of exploiting your own potential around which all forces gravitate? Is the mightiest mountain bending and finally collapsing before you?

I remember what the famous writer Marguerite Yourcenar once said: "The true birthplace is that where, for the first time, you have casted on yourself a piercing look: my first birthplaces were books."

Take a closer look at yourself and see what is the electrifying element, necessary to overcome the "inertia" of an impression of limited space. A perfect and implicitly original thing, an instaurator thing, therefore novel for the aim and benefit of your development, must be designed so as to challenge time, to be "eternal".

A sustainable development, a restatement of intentions, a clear vision, to meet all challenges, this is the requirement of a good mastery of the "personality" phenomenon in the whole splendor of life. The aesthetic formula that Cella Sergi attributes to life can be represented as follows: “The splendor of my importance is the image of a color called sensibility from which the character’s attitudes to the world feed on a story full of the perfume of social conventions.”

The creation of a literary work aims to reproduce a disturbing apparition in the project “the chance of a life lived to the fullest” through the interpretation you give to the moment of great significance that determines your destiny.

Cella Serghi is the author of her own life story in which art belongs to the deepest experiences she could reveal about herself and about the other people around her. All that surprised her in moments of great significance is the creation of a genius artist who translates his emotions on canvas, but only the emotions that are totally dependent on the experience of the social and cultural life of the common man – the man caught between doubts and virtue.

But, before your own development, before the discovery and assimilation of any alchemy, there is always a pre-alchemy, an intensive labor of search, conception, addition and correction, of adjustment of data cables – generating new processes, new structures, new openings and new realities. New elements must be identified, integrated into a mosaic of introspectives and imaginatives as original as possible. New variables must be defined, restored and promoted according to a set of rules and norms.

How can your heart, like deep water, reflect the influences exerted by a clean conscience, halfway between regret and happiness, without becoming troubled under the weight of conflicting emotions?

And this whole process of discovering the elements necessary to your accomplishment can be achieved only through relocationing the space beneficial to the crystallization of your work – in the laboratory of inovations, the sanctuary of the priceless treasure of your knowledge. Are books your first "birthplaces"? You will refine in time your true alchemy only if you will attach yourself more to these birthplaces.

Such a thing, a stimulant with a powerful effect, a substitute for the unacceptable, a protest against downfall, a restore to constantly come back to must also be protected, to not be subjected to the distructive action of your inferior nature, for your previous degree of mediocrity – which can always be reactivated – not to be distroyed.

Leadership that imparts to life a certain identity and a certain coloration refers to the “soul confession” expression of the similarities between the deepest experiences you can reveal about yourself and the certainties that you can outline about the world in a landscape full of bias.

The Voluntary Aspect Of Leadership is the importance that you give to a life that you have to spend in the perspective of meeting with another version of yourself in other times and other circumstances when everything that seemed certain becomes doubt, when everything that is common is represented only by the alluviations of the human condition.

Do not forget that everything that happens to you is a process by which you have to polish and make the most of your character.

* Note: Serghi, Cella - On The Spider's Thread of Memory, Polirom Publishing House, 2013.