The Alchemist
Written on 10:04 PM by Moobells
To realise one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Just got into reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, a very inspiring and motivating book on pursuing our own personal legend. Everyone has their own personal legend but always too often we gave up because of :-
Courage
Courage to dream. We are brought up (especially in Asian context) that we should not pursue or try out what is not expected of us, what is deem impossible and unrealistic and what is deem not the usual norm. We were brainwashed that we dun even dare to dream or think what is our own personal legend and what we really want in our life.
Love
Our love for our family, loved one is another obstacle. After making that decision to try to pursue our personal legend and not fearful of failure, we worry about our love ones. We felt guilty if our decision is too selfish. We worried that our decision might impact them negatively. We wonder if they are acceptable... but true love will understand and those who really loves you will understand and accept and want you to be happy.
Fear of defeat
We are so fearful of failing, fearful of the 101 "what if..." that we never started or venture out to what we truly believe it. I asked myself many times do I really want to become a Librarian, do I really want to change my line of job? Is it worth it? what if I discover after all this is not what i want... BUT i am glad that I tried.
Yourself
The greatest obstacle is ourself. Oscar Wilde said: ‘each man kills the thing he loves’. And it’s true. We give up our dream because of stop believing, we convince ourselves that this is not what we really wanted, we convince ourself that it is not possible and you are just wasting time. You convince yourself that it is better to give up now then later cause you are wasting time. We look around at others who failed and felt it is ok for us to be like them too. We forget about all the obstacles we had overcome, all the suffering we endured.
The Alchemist just struck such a chord in me. Never give up on your own personal legend... focus.
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