Thursday, September 24, 2009

Wisdom: The Sum of Time and Patience


Wisdom treads the desert sands,
embraced by the robes of many years,
learning, as he slowly carves his way through life.

In The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo tries to tell people about wisdom and how it takes time to gain enough to move on to your destiny. A person can't just know everything all at once, knowledge comes with experience and experience comes with time. Everyday in your life, you will learn something new that may be insignificant or change your life, you will still learn them. Anything and everything you will learn in life will bring you closer to your destiny, even if it is the least expected. With the knowledge you learn, you will be able to achieve your destiny. Coehlo also tells us that the journey we will make for this knowledge, will be hard. Though, in The Alchemist, Coehlo uses the main charcter Santiago to show us that at the end of the road, we find the reason we took that particular path in the first place, and rest assured that it was worth it. We are the main characters in our own story of life and the road to the end will be long and hard but well worth the wait and effort.

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