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.