Few things warm your heart so much that someone expresses deep gratitude to another person who has influenced and changed the course of life. Take, for example, Bukowski's wonderful letter to the man who helped him out of the daily work that he was saying to the soul and to become a full time writer. In fact, the culture of creativity is plagued by the goodness and the help of unknown supporters.
One of the most beautiful examples of this gratitude comes from Albert Camus (November 7, 1913-4, January 1960), the man with the gift of rare friendships, who spent his life learning how to live with one purpose and seeking the meaning happiness and love.
When Camus was not even one year old, his father was killed in battle during LIB. He and his brother grew up from an illiterate mummy, almost dull, and a despotic grandmother, a condition where a bright future could not be claimed, but as evidence of what could happen when education promotes the best potential of a man raising a soul, a teacher, Louis Germaine, saw the new Albert something special and undertook the task of drawing a consolidated essence and a purpose from that boy, the duty of every good mentor. Under his teacher's arms, Camus dismissed the dark letters he had stuck in his hands and began to turn into the next genius we all know.
Thirty years later, Camus became the youngest young man in the world who had won the Nobel Prize, given to the "sincere seriousness" of his work, "enlightening the problems of man's hardness." A few days after he had received the highest rating of humanity, Camus made known the influence of his teacher with "sincere seriousness" in an amazing paper, which is included in the last pages of his book The First Man.
November 19, 1957
Dear Lord Germain,
I'm leaving the strong emotions of these days to calm down shortly before speaking to you from the bottom of my heart. They have just given me a great reverence, which I did not even ask for, nor did I try to get it, but when I heard the news, my first thought after my mother was you. Without you, without the love hand you extended to that poor little boy I was, without your lessons and example, nothing of all this would have happened. I do not do much of this kind of thank you, but at least that gives me the opportunity to show you what you were and what you are still for me and to assure you that your efforts, your work, and the generous heart you put into it lives still to one of the little students who, despite having spent many years, has never stopped being your grateful student. I embrace you with all my heart.
