Choose the Right Path
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. (Oprah Winfrey) Following a dream is described as the biggest and hardest adventure, and if people work hard, they can reach their dreams. But is it really very wise to follow dream？People can take the first twenty years of life to chase dreams, however, life if limited, people need to have steady income and benefits. When a person reaches 30 years old, they need to exchange their search for a dream for a steady job.
Hard work makes people successful, but their are and few examples of people who follow their destiny and find success. In the book The Alchemist, Santiago, a young boy, follows his passion and finds his treasure. During Santiago’s journey,
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Firstly, having a steady job can have stable income. In now’s society, money is one of the most important thing, especially for an adult. In average, an American family can spend 51,100 dollars a year, which include transportation, food, entertainment, education, housing, insurance, clothes and some others. And a thirty year-old person can earn 54,305 dollars a year. So if a person has a full-time job, he is able to afford the family’s expends. Having stable income can also provide people safety, because money is necessary for living. Doing one job constantly can improve a person’s ability. Because getting used to a job need time, and be a master of the job takes even more time. While doing the stable job, people can explore new things, new method and give more sophisticate ideas to keep challenge oneself. Doing a steady job can also provide working experiences, and it is like having an insurance for the future. Because the boss will know more about the person, and know what kind of job he is good at. Then the person can at least keep the job or even luckily, get a promotion. Because there are so many benefits of keeping a steady job, people should not follow the dream.
At the age of thirty, having a steady job is better than following a dream because there are limitations such as time and failures, and there are benefits of steady jobs. So before 30 years old, let us do crazy things for five more years, go to an amazing concert, having a trip at any time, having a close friend that can share anything with, be completely drunk once and having a crazy but futile relationship. But after 30 years old, calm ourselves down, get married, having children, take care of parents, do chores, working steadily, hide the crazy ideas and having a smooth
In conclusion, Santiago from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and James J. “ The Cinderella Man” Braddock from Cinderella Man directed by Ron Howard are two examples of determination and success in their personal legend, their destinies. I truely believe that the choices we make create our future. Our destiny is not set in stone, but it is out choice that make then into monuments.
In The Alchemist Paulo Coelho presents a character, Santiago, torn between following tradition and his Personal Legend. Santiago tries to live true to his Personal Legend, which is a path pursued by those who strive to fulfill their purpose in life. Yet throughout the novel tradition, a motif, presents itself as a roadblock holding Santiago back from reaching his dreams. Coelho juxtaposes tradition against Personal Legend to illustrate its purely individual nature and the necessity of the acceptance of change to reach one’s dreams and goals.
No one is born without a reason or purpose. While it differs from person to person, there is no greater journey than the quest to fulfill it. From a shepherd searching for the treasure of his dreams, to the son of Indian immigrants who must discover the value in the treasure of accepting in his own identity, following a Personal Legend is a significant part of one’s life. Santiago and Gogol, from the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and the film adaptation The Namesake respectively, encounter obstacles as they embark on the life altering journey to discover and fulfill their destiny. Both protagonists are faced with the challenge of realizing the importance of their Personal Legend and the quest to reach
A New Kind of Dreaming is a novel written by Anthony Eaton, about a teenage boy, Jamie Riley, being referred to rural Western Australia where, he meets new friends, enemies and also discovers a shocking secret about the towns head police officer. The pressure to find out the secret puts Jamie in a great deal of trouble, from being frightened by the police, blamed for a fire and vandalism offences and even going missing in the desert. The characters have authority or are defenceless.
So many people have ideas of things they want to do, whether they be business-related, something that scares them or even just asking someone else out on a date. Everyone has ideas about how they want to live their lives, but most people never wind up following through. They are so afraid of failure or of looking bad that they run from any kind of challenge. Then later in life, when they realize that they had all these opportunities and never took ad...
First of all, the author shows that through persevering through adversity anyone can achieve their dreams. During the book Santiago continuously faces problems that he will have to overcome to achieve his Personal Legend. In this scenario, Santiago is in the city of Tangier when he is suddenly robbed of all of his money, by a thief who promised to take him to Egypt. However instead of thinking of himself as a victim of a thief he decides that “I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure” (34). Santiago was able to persevere through a situation that many people would not have been able to overcome and not able to continue their journey. Being able to persevere through
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The book “The Alchemist” , by Paulo Coelho, perfectly illustrates that people in our lives influences our decisions based upon their advice. When reading the book Santiago travels to Egypt to get to the pyramids, but along his way he figures out his personal legend, and met two influential people. Throughout the story, two characters, the Alchemist and the Crystal Merchant, both influence and give their perspective of life to Santiago’s on his decisions on his personal legend. In Paulo Coelho's book, “The Alchemist”, Santiago must learn the lessons of perseverance, belief in oneself, and sacrifice in order to achieve his personal legend through the teachings of the Alchemist and the camel driver.
"If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear ideals of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.” That is one of many deep quotes that makes the reader truly think about life in The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho. The book is about a young boy named Santiago, who loves travel and adventure, but he does not have the money to do so. He was raised to be a priest, but decides that he would rather be a shepherd, so that he can travel. Santiago’s father gives him two spanish coins, and tells him that he will learn one day that no place is as beautiful as the one he lives in. It seems like Santiago’s father believes in him, but not the way Santiago wants him to.
Looking back at your life and how things turned out makes you wonder what lies ahead. Every step you take has multiple variables to it and the tinniest choice can make the biggest impact on your future and who you are. In The Alchemist, the main character sets off on a journey into the unknown to discover himself. Of course the obvious would say, “Oh, he is Santiago from Andalusia; but some would interpret discovering oneself as finding their personal legend. In other words, trying to create your own story by accomplishing feats and goals you set for yourself, not others.
Mariano Martinez pd:2nd The Alchemists What The Alchemists is trying to tell us (the reader) is you should always follow your dream’s. It started with a boy who wanted to travel. In conclusion, he became a shepherd he assumed this job would allow him to travel as much as he wanted. One year the boy meet a merchant;in addition, the merchant also had a daughter which the boy thought was very attractive.
From a toddler’s first steps to a senior graduating high school, dreams have been embedded within an individual for their entire lifetime. It is these dreams that drive an individual to take certain risks and struggle periodically in order to achieve their ultimate desires. It is these dreams that bring individuals to challenge their capabilities to higher standards. It is these dreams that would help one’s well being, and inspires others to perform better as well. The formation and creation of dreams have inspired fictional characters such as Santiago of The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho. It also applied to the real life Mirabal sisters of In the Time of the Butterflies written
In order to have many career goals, you first must have a career. Plus, in today’s economy, it is not as easy to obtain high-level job positions. Once you obtain a job, though, it will provide many merits and perks. My motivation for having this as one of my top career goals is to prove my skill as a reliable worker in an ever growing job force. I take pride in the work I do and always want it to represent me in the best way it can. I do not want to be lost in the endless sea of workers, I want to stand out from everyone else. I strive to be seen as a leader and innovator, and not a follower. Obtaining a job will help me achieve all this, and it will also allow me to start to make a change in my
So think about it, do you have a dream? It does not matter how big or how small. Whether it is as small as getting an A on the test in your next period or becoming a doctor it is still your dream. Your dream is obtainable. As Brian Littrell once said, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Keep that sound track on the side of you so it will help you get through huge obstacles in life. So Remember chase your dream and give it all you got because I know I
Setting goals and objectives for ourselves can give us a sense of direction in life. But the tides of time are unpredictable and things might not always turn out the way we planned them to be. Growing up, I knew I would finish high school at the age of eighteen, college at twenty-three and be married latest by the age of twenty- six. And of course I knew I was going to be a lawyer or let me put it this way; my parents wanted me to be a lawyer and they made sure my academic performance never declined. I attended the best boarding schools and lacked nothing, so what could possibly go wrong to defer my dream?