The idea of a Personal Legend can mean different things to different individuals based on the life they have lived. For some, their legend may be to save a life, become a doctor, or even achieve happiness. It takes some people a longer time to find and achieve this legend, but I have been blessed to have realized my Personal Legend at a young age. My Personal Legend is to lead those who are lost to Christ and project God’s love with my helpfulness, advice-giving, and overall generosity as a person. The Alchemist somewhat reminded me of God’s power as my creator.
When I was 11 years old, I gave my life to Christ. My generous soul had been apparent to others at my Christian Academy, so me not being saved was a shock to many. As I stood with my
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“Um sure,” she says. Jessica and I had no idea that this interaction would lead to a five year, and counting, friendship. Not only would we become great friends, but we would argue, fight, and “end” our friendship numerous times. Every argument, fight, or end of our friendship would typically stem from a spazz of Jessica’s emotions. Everything would be going just fine, and all of a sudden I see a text saying “Why are we still friends?” or “Don't text me ever again.” or the most common “I don't want to be friends anymore.”As one could imagine, hearing these things over and over again would stab me deeply in the heart, but I never pushed Jessica away. Something in my soul told me to calm down and try to understand why Jessica was doing the things she was. That something was the Holy Spirit. So, I put two and two together: these splurges Jessica had were an opportunity for me to manifest my magnanimous personality through the love God had for me. I realized I had to show her the same level of forgiveness that I had always received from Christ. From that point forward, I was patient, kind, and understanding with Jessica. I was able to cope with “losing her” every other week because I realized that that was what Jessica needed from me at the
Everyone in life must find, and know themselves from the stories they tell. In Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business Dunstan Ramsey tells us his life’s story, from a small-town kid, to battling in the war, growing into old age and his struggle to capture and understand his personal mythology. Personal mythology is ones life story and inner self, whether they’re conscious of it or not. It’s shaped and created by experiences, moments, people, beliefs and stories. Throughout his life Dunstan is molded and influenced by different events, people, stories and his inner-self that make him better understand and make his own personal mythology. However, Dunstan’s – like most other’s – personal mythology must be set on course by a trigger event that sends
Throughout the years, certain writers were able to set off a deep sympathetic resonance within readers by their usage of archetypal patterns. One of those patterns is known as the hero's journey, which Joseph Campbell gave an understandable idea of in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. According to his book, while comparing world's mythology, he found that no matter how far cultures are from each other, they will still have the same structure of hero's journey in their legends (Voytilla vii).
Joseph Campbell studied ancient greek mythology for many years. Joseph filled each stage of the journey very well. He accepted all the challenges he got and all the help he needed. He really knew how to fulfill all those stages. Like everyone goes through a heroic journey everyone has to have a story to tell. My story is very contrasty from Joseph’s because he really knew what all the stages meant. My hero's journey consists of my threshold crossing which was when I started depending on myself more than I did on others, my helpers/mentors like my parents, teachers,my sister and many more influential people in my life and my rewards were getting awards in school, having a nice family, and many friends.
“The closer one gets to realizing his Personal Legend, the more that Personal Legend becomes his true reason for being” ~ Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist (75)
Have you ever encountered problems while trying to fulfill a goal in your life? In the book The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho, a shepherd boy named Santiago overcomes obstacles to reach his personal legend. Throughout the book Santiago encounters many friends to help him fulfill his destiny. Santiago encounters many problems throughout the story. He overcomes them with the help of his friends and his wife-to-be. These problems shape Santiago into a dignified man of many traits.
“The Alchemist” a novel written by Paulo Coelho, is about a boy named Santiago. A shepherd who yearns to travel to search for his a treasure he dreamt of that is extravagant as any ever found. Along the way to his journey Santiago learns from people and becomes wiser. Teaching us things that a few books teach us which is to listen to our hearts and become wiser from the things we come across above all to follow your dreams. Santiago begins his hero’s journey to pursue his dreams and go to an unknown world.
The Legend of the Narcissus reveals the idea of looking past beauty and instead understanding the beauty of life and the world around it. This enhances the Alchemist because it builds on the lesson that Santiago begins to learn on his journey. The main character, Santiago, goes on this journey to fulfill his Personal Legend and find his treasure. On the way, he learns the beauty of the world around him and the language of the world. He starts to look past his treasures and goals, and looks more to the Soul of the World and the beauty within the universe.
The seed of Christ was planted for me years ago. I did what I thought every typical Christian should be doing. I went to church and volunteered my time every chance I got. I home schooled my children and taught them the ways of God as I understood them. I had dinner prepared for my husband every night and made him lunch every day. However, on the inside I was hurting and miserable. Little did I know I was just escaping time while my sinful...
In the world today, a vast diversity of individuals strive towards their “Personal Legend”: the largest accomplishment of one individual’s lifetime. This phrase appeared in Paulo Coelho’s best-selling novel, The Alchemist, where he concretely defines a person’s “Personal Legend”. Throughout this novel, Santiago, a youthful shepherd, strived to follow his Personal Legend of finding treasure at the Egyptian Pyramids; he encountered numerous hindrances as well as met numerous people that guided him closer to his optimum goal. Near the beginning of the book, Coelho elaborated that “[A Personal Legend is] what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. ‘At that point in their lives,
The boy, Santiago, was driven to find a lost treasure. He was forced to leave his life as a shepherd and his home. He traveled a across a continent in search of his treasure. Joseph Campbell proposes that most works of literature follow one basic structure called a monomyth or the hero’s journey. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago is a Joseph Campbell hero, because he follows the path laid out in The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.
When you fall into the ocean, it's nearly impossible to fight back the current. This is the same story with fate. The evaluation of these three texts based on the Chinese proverb “When the wind of change blows, some build walls while others build windmills” influenced me to decide that change can either cause you to be a victim of fate or an agent of free will. Devices such as hyperboles, Metaphors, and moods helped create a more detailed idea of the three texts. In the three texts The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and River and Tides which was directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer we learn that the fear of the unknown holds us back, but our fate is what leads us to greatness because it’s impossible to know what affect
3 Spanish Coins...Though they have been spent they remind me that my father had somewhat approved of my desires to travel. He had told me that had he not been responsible for a family he too would have liked to travel and that he is would like me to use the 3 spanish coin to buy myself a flock of sheep and travel the land. And though the coins are simply material wealth, the fact my father had given them to me was not only omen that I would be able to travel but a sign that he had approved og my decisions.
A personal legend is the idea that our lives are predestined by the gods and we have a legend we all must follow to live a fulfilling life, Except you don’t. The novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho uses personal legends as a plot device, the main character’s drive to keep going is that he will reach his personal legend and fulfill his life. The problem is that to fulfill your life you do not need to achieve your personal legend. You do not even need a personal legend. Fulfillment is relative from person to person, but one condition remains, happiness. If you want a fulfilling life you don’t need to follow your dreams, you just need to be happy with your stake in life.
The Price of Success Paulo Coelho's argument does have merit. Yes, everyone has a personal calling, but not all of us are able to achieve it due to our lack of courage. In most cases such as mine, fear is the root of all my problems; it shackles me. However, this is not the case for Santiago, in the novel The Alchemist, and with that I found exaltation. In the novel, Santiago manages to overcome all the obstacles that he happens upon whether it be internally or externally. The dilemma's that he encounters, I strongly identify with because I contend with them daily: the fear of responsibility, suffering and most of all the fear of failure.
During my seventh grade year, my church went to a youth rally at a local church on weekend. Because of this rally and the message it sent, I realized and wanted to give my life to Jesus through baptism. It was awesome, I got home as a young teenager and actually talked to my mom about what it really means to be a Christian and to pick up your cross and follow him. So that very next weekend, my dad baptized me in front of the whole church on Sunday morning. It was an awesome feeling knowing that because of Jesus’ grace and mercy, I will be with him one day and spend eternity with him. Although I was on top of the world at this point, I still didn’t know fully what I had gotten into. So the next few years, I live the typical Christian life. I was trying to be the perfect person by doing the right stuff, I would try not to cuss, I would try to wear as many WWJD bracelets as I could so that I wouldn’t have to talk to them about Christ and they could just see it on my wrist, I would not join in on conversations with my friends that I knew were not right, I was just living life on cruise control.