I was cleaning out my attic and found a copy of “Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell. I think it's from my high school Literature Class or similar classes.
Anyway, I started to read the book like a normal rational human being who is semi-tired from the cleaning.
The book, the sentences, the words, everything hit differently. See, probably when I read this book for the first time in high school, I was not interested and read it because only for quizzes and tests related to the book, but when I read it now. Man, every single words hit me so hard.
“It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.”
“Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Señor' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou', and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos días!.”
“In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist.”
The most memorable quote was:
“Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”
I started to ask myself: “when was the last time I was a individual human being not a tiny, rusty and expandable cog?”