Being Your Better Self Becoming better benefits a bunch of beings. When you become better, you may not know it, but people around you benefit from you trying to improve. This happens to the main protagonist, Santiago because he strives to become better and everyone and everything’s lives around him improve as well. In the novel, The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, Santiago learns, “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” To begin, King Melchizedek tries to become better, and in return Santiago becomes better.
In life a single event can dramatically change a person forever, but how they survive determines what matters the most. In Night by Elie Wiesel and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, two characters named Elie and Santiago are placed in life altering situations where they must figure out how to persevere. The dramatic book, Night, recounts the reprehensible treatment that Elie had to live through during the Holocaust. Elie endures horrible conditions in a Nazi concentration camp and learns survival. He chooses to separate himself from his negative experiences and still have hope.
While people come in all shapes in sizes, underneath it all we are still flesh and blood. Even if people have a different skin color or orientation we are all humans living on this earth. This idea, no this fact was really driven home to me when I was traveling with my family around the world. We met people in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Ecuador and though they looked and talked different they had the same needs, concerns and wants. I found a quote by Santiago, a boy in The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho that really explains this better than I ever could, “I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything in the universe.
The Alchemist Santiago has many mentors along the way during his journey. He had the alchemist, the crystal merchant, and his own sheep. The alchemist helped Santiago turn himself into the wind. Turning Santiago into the wind saved his life, he was being held captive and when he turned into the wind he was able to escape from the people holding him captive.
Sometimes you cant prevent your suffering or the suffering of others. In the novella “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck alot of the charecters have situation inflicted suffering for example Lennie suffers from a mental disorder and he did not get to choose to have it. Since Lennie has a bourden that also effects other chericters i the novel like George. George, Lennies and, Crooks’ suffering is all inflicted ba a cirten situation that is impossibal or very hard to get out of. Lennies suffering is situation inflicted because he cant control weather he is mentally challenged or not.
Suffering is revealed by the monster's actions in Frankenstein. He just wants to be loved and have a family but he can’t because of what he looks like and what he is. He suffers because he is not accepted and everyone hates him. The monster states to his creator, “ I am your creature. I was good, but unhappiness had made me bad.
Everyone is on their own path in finding and or completing their personal legend. In the book “The Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho, the author introduced us to a boy named Santiago who is on his own journey finding treasure. In his journey we witness Santiago in the beginning not believing in his legend and only wanting to be a shepherd and traveling around the world. Along his way Santiago kept meeting older people who spoke wise words to him from their own personal experiences. The old king was one of the wise people who had spoken to him before and the one who he remembered and influenced him the most to chase his legend.
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ”(Paulo Coelho). This is what was said to the main character, Santiago, in the book, The Alchemist, when the old king told him his personal legend. A Personal Legend is your life's spiritual purpose. He said Santiago’s personal legend was to find the treasure in the Egyptian Pyramids.
Suffering “People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that they don’t deserve them or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. Their hearts become fearful just thinking of the loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.” (Stated the Alchemist) “My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer” the boy told the alchemist.
Sometimes, we come across significant events in our lives that challenge our morals, making us forget our intended goal. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago values the present and what it is that it can hold. He often says he likes to live a transient lifestyle and left a past life to live out his dream. In the beginning, Santiago often listens to his sheep, herding them and living in the moment.
In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the idea of discovering your dream, or personal legend, and reaching it are talked about. It is said that if you don't fulfil your personal legend, that you have not lived your life to the fullest. The main character, Santiago, discovers his person legend through an interpreted dream. He goes on a journey to fulfil his life and dream. Along the way he faces many obstacles and meets many people.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho portrays a young boy pursuing his Personal Legend. Everyone has a Personal Legend which is what a person has always wanted to accomplish but as time goes on people start to believe that their dreams are impossible. This novel describes the journey that the boy, Santiago, goes on to realize his Personal Legend. Paulo Coelho uses characters such as the miner, the thief, Fatima, and the alchemist to demonstrate the theme that pursuing one’s Personal Legend isn’t about the treasure found at the end, but the journey made and the obstacles that were overcome.
Even though people suffer, when it is noticed, others help them as much as
This suffering isn’t extraordinary, nor must it be; suffering is universal, as is its immiseration. Through impartial observation and easeful acceptance, my practice has been transmuting the core of my being, shedding away impulsiveness, indulgence, self-pity and cyclical heartbreaks, slowly replacing this turbulence with warm, open clarity. I’ve seen similar transformations in my peers, and from my teachers witnessed the numinous intuition and contentment nurtured through decades of cultivation. Knowing dhamma as a powerful answer to addiction, depression, and existential
I personally think that suffering helps us to notice and appreciate true happiness. If we did not feel pain, we would not realize how great life is. Aristotle implies we are able to control our happiness in this way. Once we have experienced suffering we know it eventually passes and life carries
