Alchemist: Reflection
How far would you go to achieve your “Personal Legend”? Do you have a Personal Legend? How would you realise it? What do you need for the quest? What happens when you achieve it? Why would you go far in discovering it?
What is my message in life; a lifetime vital question humans have wondered about! Of the so many dreams I have which one is the right one to follow? What is that one door I need to unlock to explore my path? How far the route will take me? Who will guide me through? What is the big trophy at the end? Would it be an end or a new start then?
That is what Paulo Coelho referred to as a Personal Legend in his famous Alchemist. "Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure" P. Coelho. As simple as this! Just follow what you love the most, and it will bring the joy you are after! We have a human tendency to defy our passion and search for something more. While if we just listened carefully to what our hearts are after, there it is. You have it without realising it!
There is a beautiful long journey in the book that you can’t help but listen to the wisdom it has in the middle of the sand of the desert, carried with the wind and under the bright sun. It is therapeutic and self mediating, you listen to the inner thoughts that could be your own. It is the silence that is never quite, a universal language of the world!
Persistence, courage, and patience are essential tools that you need to pack with you for this long journey. The idea of quitting in the middle might cross your mind thousands of times, but there is a goal that you want to achieve that will fuel you to move forward. "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure" P. Coelho
While we are in the middle of the struggle we might forget to enjoy the quest of seeking a personal legend. We tend to focus on the end line, while you are in the process of a metamorphosis of your own-self. "They were looking only for gold, they were seeking the treasure of their Personal Legend without wanting actually to live out the Personal Legend" P. Coelho
No matter how this dream could be achieved, what matters in the end is the journey itself and the knowledge and experience gained throughout. I cannot find a better way to describe it than to quote Ernest Hemingway “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
