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I Am the Master of My Fate

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” P William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) penned the words of his immortal Invictus (unconquered in Latin) after years of painful tuberculosis (TB) infection of his bones, eventually losing his leg to the disease. Disabled throughout adulthood, and eventually dying of pulmonary TB, Henley nonetheless lived a productive life, thanks in part to his “unconquerable soul.” Years later, during the incarceration of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the words of Invictus helped keep hope alive in the South African leader and his fellow prisoners. The same microbe that ravaged Hensley also affected Mandela near the end of his 27 years of imprisonment. When taken to a Cape Town hospital on August 1988, Mandela was unable to speak and had hemoptysis. Fortunately, he recovered after 4 months of treatment—“bloody but unbowed.” In July 2013, in honor of President Mandela’s 95th birthday, the city of Santa Monica, California, commissioned American artist David Flores to paint a street-side mural. Born in 1972 in California’s Central Valley, Flores studied graphic design in college and swiftly rose to prominence as a commercial and urban artist. He developed an original “stained glass,” mosaic-like style to his portraiture and has become world-renowned for his giant murals of influential figures. I Am the Master of My Fate