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Alchemist journal 3 final draft

October 4th, 2012

Garrett Kitchen

True Love has no boundaries

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love.... the love that speaks the Language of the World.”

If you truly love someone you trust them. You trust them to leave and come back, you trust them not to forget you even when you’re not there. Most of all you trust them to believe in your love  and trust that they won’t come to harm. “if he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love...” I think this means, that you know it isn’t true love if your significant other doesn’t trust you to leave and come back or leave and stay honest to the relationship. Although I do think everything has it’s boundaries, it’s limitations. If you leave on a journey and are gone for a few years or if you're gone and you have no contact whatsoever with your true love be it by call, email, letter, or by soul. For example when Santiago is back at the church (towards the end of the book)  he smells Fatima's perfume and feels her kisses, well that is true love. Santiago can be world away, yet still communicate with Fatima.

I think after reading this book I could let someone I truly I love seek out their Personal Legend. I also think that I could only withstand so much separation before I needed to see that person that I love. An example of letting Loved ones seek out their Personal Legend is parents letting their kids move out. Even though it is seen as just growing up when a person moves out of home it is letting go of a lot. Although, I think kids leaving home is a very different type of leaving. That kind of love that you have for your parents and that you have for your True Love are different. The Kind of love you have for your parents and that your parents have for you is the kind that will always be there, no matter what. The kind of love you have for your partner is similar.  If you left your partner for as long as you leave your family, your relationship may have some leftover, but the physical relationship and the soul link will most likely be gone. The significant similarity between the two is that they are both very true and both speak the Language of the World.

Alchemist journal 2 final draft

Garrett Kitchen

9/19/2012

It Is Written

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”(78)

        I think this quote has two meanings. If only one meaning came out of everything, only a few people would get that meaning. The same things mean different things to different people. I am going to write both the meanings I was fortunate enough to see. Even if I only I interpreted the meanings, because That’s what I wanted to see. For showing me these two interpretations.
        I think the first meaning this quote signified is that a higher power wrote the history of the world and our life stories. The second meaning I saw in this quote was that you helped write the history of the world because things you do become history, and your apart of the Soul of the World. Of course if you wrote the history of the world then you're writing your life story, and that’s a part of the soul of the world.
        This applies to Santiago in the sense that God/Soul of the World wrote Santiago’s personal legend, but at the pivotal point in his life he needed to realize his personal legend, When Santiago is reaching his personal legend, it isn’t all the King of Salem, and beginners luck. In fact mainly it’s Santiago fulfilling his personal legend. So in a sense, at least for Santiago he realizes the history of the world and his life story are written by him and God, but doesn’t it say in the book, that we all are a part of the Soul of the World and apart of God? If you think of it in this way, it is all written in the same hand.
        This applies to my life, because everyone wrote the history of the world and each person wrote their own life story along with God and The Soul of the World. If we’re all apart of God and The Soul of the world we are all in a certain sense the same being. No matter what our differences are every human has a primal belief in something whether it is God in any shape or form(s), a higher power, spirituality, or Atheism. Before we come into this world, when we’re in it, and after this world we can all be a part of The Soul of the World. We can all be one with each other. Don’t get me wrong, we obviously are all different, but I’m talking on the deepest/highest plane of spirituality we are all together, united as one. That’s outlook on this whole life changing scrap of knowledge.

Alchemist Journal 1 final draft

Garrett Kitchen

Wednesday, Sept 12th, 2012

The Marvels and Responsibilities of Life

“ The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” (34)

    I have a few dreams and ambitions in life, but it’s hard for me to know which are the “drops of oil’ and which are my marvels of the world. My biggest  goal or dream,(which of all my dreams is the hardest to accomplish) is to go to Harvard and become a lawyer. If I can’t get into Harvard, then i would like to go to an I.V. league college on the East Coast. Going there would most likely get me in with a good law firm, and if I could turn that into a job I could most likely get a steady income going.
    Eventually, I would like to propose to my girlfriend of that time when I’m in love with her, and start a family. All this is subject to change, this is just what I want now, but maybe in a few years I’ll feel different, I realize now that for a lot of people these are the drops of oil on the spoon, which means that all I want to focus on is the drops of oil. For me seeing the marvels of the world is spending time off of work or school, and just doing what I love with the ones I love. I want to travel, and I would like to travel with someone I love.
    To keep the drops on the spoon, and to see the marvels of the world, I need to keep my academics up, and to try my best to always take time to just enjoy myself. To enjoy myself, and stay in contact with my family later on in life. I need to never lose sight of who I truly am, and my outlook on life and the world. I know as I learn new things and grow older I will Change. I know I will change as a person and as a part of the spirit of the world. But I never want to become, one of the people I fear or hate, and I never want to ignore my personal legend. I want to fulfill my personal legend, and live a happy prosperous life in the shoes of whoever I’m going to be.