Responce to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhere higher.” Thomas Henry Hurley. Paulo Coelho and Hurley share the same concept the meaning of life is not to be fulfilled at where you are at, instead to take it to a whole new level and keep climbing up the latter. Coelho takes us through a journey of a young shepherd boy who is trying desperately to climb the rungs of his ladder to reach his personal legend in the international best-selling novel, “The Alchemist”. Along this never-ending journey, Santiago was phased with the quest to bridge the physiological and physical gap between innocence and experience. Coelho leads the reader on a riveting expedition through the good and bad of chasing your authentic self to the point of self-discovery. Paulo truly captures the essence of a young man who wasn’t completely fulfilled at where he was at so it leads him to search for something deeper. The remedy to bridge the gap from total innocence to utmost experience is a pinch of ignorance, a dose of growth and a heap of wisdom.

As humans we adapt to the environment that we have grown

“The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind, and saw he could have the same freedom. There was nothing holding him back except himself.”

The boy goes on to find his treasure and through the omens he realizes as he is digging that his treasure is not at the pyramids it is at a ruined church in Spain, where he always stayed with his sheep. Santiago asked the wind why he had to go all the way to Egypt when his treasure was in Spain all the time, the wind said going to Egypt was part of your personal legend and if you had not gone there you would never have found your treasure. The alchemist gained wisdom by practising and pursuing what was already inside of him, he became an alchemist and developed the wisdom of the world.

“I only invoked what you already knew,” said the alchemist.

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