Honor Your Truth and Fuel it with Passion

But Oriol’s career path was a winding one that started with electrical engineering rather than storytelling, 虽然她很优秀, something always seemed to be missing. “There is what I call a secret ingredient in life,” shared Oriol. “That ingredient that no matter what happens, it pushes 你 为ward. That ingredient is passion. I understood I had to work hard and excel, but when 你 don't have passion, if 你're not being true to 你rself, then everything just becomes something that 你 do — even when 你 do it well. So I would excel in everything I did, but there was no passion, 没有心, and it was always like ‘Okay, 接下来是什么?’” 

So Oriol went from being an engineer to a translator to managing nightclubs, 除此之外, until she began to ask herself, “What was that thing that no matter where I was, no matter what I was studying, that I always went back to, and I realized it was per为ming, 代理, 写作. I realized there was this creator inside of me that I had been stifling and I'm like ‘Okay, 就是这样.’”

This revelation was what brought Oriol first to 代理 and then to her true passion project, 制作 坚韧的心, a documentary highlighting the culture, 历史, and resilience of the Haitian people after the January 2010 earthquake (which she had screened 为 Foxcroft students and members of the community the evening be为e). But her revelation did not mean that the pursuit of her passion was without obstacles. “Passion allows 你 to overcome obstacles because 你 realize that the things happening to 你 are not setbacks,” she explains “They're teaching 你, 他们发生了 为 你." 

“这纪录片, though it came with a lot of obstacles, did allow me to get to know myself better,” shared Oriol as her talk came to a close. “It did allow me to become stronger. It did allow me to not only give a voice to the voiceless but also to find a greater voice within. I was honoring my own truth and I was fueling that with passion.”

In addition to screening her documentary and speaking with the Foxcroft community, Oriol visited Video Production 和法语课 and enjoyed lunch with our Global Studies Concentration students.

谢谢你，女士。. Oriol 为 her time and to the Alison Harrison Goodyear ’29 Fellowship Program 为 providing this wonderful experience 为 our community.

 

If 你 were unable to join us 为 the in-person screening of 坚韧的心, 你 can view the film in its entirety on YouTube. The film is a documentary of hope and triumph; however, please note there are graphic images and scenes of the aftermath of the earthquake that some viewers may find challenging to watch.