Alchemist
How does Dream make us walk in a long way? What can you choose between your own way and others’ expectation? If you respect your dream, don’t laugh at others, just because they are far from what you think.
Should social status, money and marriage become a choice before your dream? A poor d boy boldly wanted to travel around the world instead of becoming a minister. His beloved father bought a herd of sheep and encouraged his son to seek dream. Why? Because not everyone can travel the world and not everyone can have a dream twice for a large sum of treasure.
We should be grateful to our parents who give their love and money to encourage us to pursue our dream and walk in our own way of life.
Is knowledge and experience a necessity for one to realize his dream? The country boy learned from everyone passing him by heart and was able to think wisely. From sheep, he learned to make a living, but he didn’t think sheep is better than a man. Can sheep speak Arabic? Without books, Confucians learned knowledge from people. From their life story, he found what he really wanted to be.
Can poverty prevent his process to success even losing three times all what he had? He found a job. No pleasure can stop his step of seeking his dream even his lover would wait for him according to God’s will.
No danger can stop him from moving forward even the beggar hit him almost death.
Temporary poor and hurt, even keep no contact with friends for a while can’t prevent us to pursue happiness, freedom and life in our lives.
Why travel is the best chance to make friends? He met a lot of people, from a stealer to an Alchemist, to a king, a dream teller, a shop manager, a lovely girl, a lot of friends and few enemies. He was eager to make friends during his exploration.
Perseverance invites a lot of challenges from life, losing dream, unknown love, work, innocence, stereotype and bias. But how to realize it with faith, hope and love decides who you could be.
Enjoy your life and put your love deep inside your heart, keeping your dream in each step of way.
Alchemist is one of the most popular novels in the world for the philosophy behind the story. Do you want to read it when you feel lost and try to find your begging dream?
(the Alchemist-Paulo coelho)
