The Final Chapter of Paulo Coelho's THE PILGRIMAGE
Posted on Thursday, November 18, 2004
Finally,...
I finished reading "The Pilgrimage", a Paulo Coelho's book. You guys, might have known Paulo through his famous Book "the Alchemist". Even though it is as inspiring and invigorating as the Alchemist, the Pilgrimage has a little bit more complicated words and phrase, and it's not really as easy-to-digest as the Alchemist. I needed to go back and forth and re-read over again some pages. It meant that I got either inspired or confused and didn't understand what the idea had been introduced in the earlier pages. huehehehehe
You may want to recall the story in the Alchemist, which tell the story of a young shepherd who had a dream and were willing to give up everything to chase after his dream. It shows you that it is important for everyone of us to have a dream, and CHASE AFTER it, coz the universe will gather its power and everything to help us chasing our dream,.. our real and true dream. We just need to look around and pay attention to the OMEN provided, (that’s what Palo called it, OMEN), and feel it, then we would know what we should do next to find out where our treasure is. And a dream will always make people more alive, and high-spirited, re-born, and help them get out from their little warm box of status quo, and dare to travel across the ocean and continent to face all the challenges and uncertainty, and get surprised by what they would get in the end of the journey.. Those are all in the Alchemist.
While in the Pilgrimage, it has also the same adventurous theme. An adventure to search a sword, which actually had been just a grab away from Paulo’s hands, but Paulo (Paulo put a character of himself in the book) had not been ready yet and not pure enough to receive the sword, .. .so the sword had to go somewhere out there, and to re-claim it again, Paulo needed to take a route, a medieval route known as the Strange Road to Santiago, a route that took a road from a small city in southern area of France crossing north area of Spain to the west.
Perhaps the story of the journey detailed in the book would make you bored if you can not enjoy the deep, inspiring, poetic, and philosophic words in the conversations exchanged by Paulo and his guide. Further, while the journey move on through chapters, Paulo put one little exercise in the end of each chapter, with a flat flow of the story. It made me want to open the next following chapters and wondering where Paulo want me to go in the end.
And it is in the final chapter where we would find the end of journey with a surprising finding. Let me quote one paragraph from there.
“It is not a sin to be happy. Half a dozen exercises and an attentive ear are enough to allow us to realize our most impossible dreams. Because of my pride in wisdom, you made me walk the Road that every person can walk, and discover what everyone else already knows if they have paid the slightest attention to life. You made me see that the search for happiness is a personal search and not a model we can pass on to others. Before finding my sword, I had to discover its secret - and the secret was so simple; it was to know what to do with it. With it and with the happiness that it would represent to me."
Yes, our quest is not how to achieve your goals and dreams, but to know what you would do with your goals and dreams as if achieved and what would you do with that and the happiness and joy that your goals and dreams bring in.
That recalled me to my childhood dream,.. you want to know my childhood dream, what I want to be in the future? Menristek, Minister of Research and Technology, like Mr. BJ Habibie,.. huehehhehe...
But then again now, I feel that I need to restructure all my dreams again, trying to figure out what I want to do with my dreams when they actually come true.
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