All By Myself… With Everyone Else All people are codependent, that’s just the way it is. We wouldn’t have our world if just one person tried to create it. That’d be physically impossible. However, we often come across the stubborn ones who “can do it themselves.” According to Paulo Coelho, they can’t. In Coelho’s, The Alchemist, Santiago and the people that he meets upon his journey, prove that you can not achieve your dreams independently. Santiago meets many impactful people throughout his journey, starting with King Melchizedek who shares the truth about how Santiago would need to get to his treasure. “In order to find the treasure, you will need to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you” (29). Omens were monumental for Santiago to move forward towards his Personal Legend. If the King had not taught Santiago to follow the omens then he wouldn’t have interpreted them the way he had. Specifically, when he saw that the hawks were flying above the desert he took it as an omen and then told the desert army that war was coming to them. This omen led him to go with The Alchemist and further his journey. Fatima was the woman he met once he reached the oasis, he immediately fell in love with her making her a very …show more content…
Although the crystal merchant did not go to achieve is dreams of visiting Mecca, he was able to decide whether or not he should try with the help of Santiago. “‘Before you came, I was thinking about how much time I had wasted in the same place, while my friends had moved on’” (57). The crystal merchant shows how you won’t achieve your dreams by yourself. He says that he hadn’t even considered it until he met Santiago. This shows how without other people to guide you, you will not be able to even decide how you want to go about the rest of your life and the fulfillment of your