When you really want something the Universe will move out of your way and help you achieve it! I have recently finished reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It’s an epic tale of love, courage and spiritual enlightenment that fucking blew my mind!
The story is about a dude named Santiago who loved to go about his mundane life as a Shepard, who had grown quite fond of his sheeps (Not like that you sick fuck!). Never questioning whether he made the right career choice. He’s just a dude who loved to travel and this career path happens to tailor to people like him. It’s not that he didn’t want to aim high! It’s just that the story took place before the advent of aerial transportation, or else he would take up a job as a pilot and all his trials and tribulations would be much much shorter and trivial.
It just wouldn’t be an international bestselling phenomenon.
I don’t want to give too much away, but ultimately this boy had a dream. Literally, a recurring dream that had shown him images of buried treasure at the foot of the pyramids. This dream was his ultimate call-to-action, akin to Luke Skywalker and how he blew up the Death Star. But I digress.
The point of the story is dreams do come true, however it comes with a caveat, that in order to fulfil this dream. One must take that very scary first step of deciding to give up his or her personal illusion of safety, like a crappy job, and willing to face a barrage of obstacles and set-backs before earning one’s dream in life.
One thing I took away from the story is that as long as you are willing to put yourself out there, risking that mundane repetitive life to really LIVE your dream, you will definitely meet defeat, you will learn, you will grow and you will be abundantly rewarded.
It’s fucked up how this shit works but this book made a believer out of me. It makes it ok for me to fail sometimes and to expect certain setbacks in life or in any endeavours. This is very endearing to me.
I am so fucking inspired by Santiago that I want to model my life on his epic journey and live out my dream and find my treasure!
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