An Essay On The Alchemist

In life, any given person will have an abundance chances to give up on their dreams, but will be better off if they choose to take the road less travelled and to continue on to achieve their “personal legend, just as Santiago does in the book: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. Santiago, (Also known as “the boy”) has a great wealth of opportunities from start to finish to abandon his quest to the pyramids, but in the end, he chooses to forging onward despite all the different chances he had to settle down and make a comfortable living for himself, each time doing something different for a living, but each of these things that Santiago could have done had one thing in common: No matter which one he chose, if Santiago decided to go on with any of these opportunities, he would never be able to achieve his personal legend.
Sometimes, it can be hard for a person to choose to go on to achieve their personal legend, but Santiago persevered, and went for greatness. Some of the most significant example of Santiago choosing to go for his personal legend, rather than settling down somewhere is his decision to continue his journey and to go on and join the caravan when he could have made a very comfortable living for himself
One day, after years of being a shepherd, Santiago was given an opportunity to go on an adventure. It is an extremely difficult choice to make for Santiago, because going on such an adventure would tear apart the fabric of Santiago’s life, because up until now he has only known this life of herding his sheep, and selling their wool. The reason this makes it a difficult decision for Santiago to make is that this life with his sheep taught him to love stability, and fear change. Nothing ever changed for him in the andalusian hills, after all. But he chose to “go big” as it were, and to achieve his dreams of travel, along with the promise of