I just finished reading this really good book "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho. A dear friend Terry suggested it to me, so I thought why not and started reading it. It talks about wisdom. Somewhat in a spiritual sense but at the same time not really. I know real descriptive right. Anyway like I said i just finished it. There are so many things I could say about it but not enough time and space haha. Anyway at one point the main character goes to an oasis on his journey to find his Personal Legend, to find out what his purpose in life is. Kind of like how we are on a journey to find out what God's will for our lives are. At the end of my copy of the book there are different questions about the novel and about yourself which I am kinda talking about with Terry at the moment.
One of the questions is really interesting and has me really thinking...have there been times in your life when you felt resistant to living out your personal legend? has there been times in your life when you felt resistant to living out God's will? I think at some point in all of our lives we all have been resistant to living out God's will or our Personal Legends as Coelho states. I look back on the things in my life and wonder it all had to be a part of Gods will or leading up to his will or else why would it have happened? Why would I have been diagnosed with cancer? Why did I have to spend 6 months through chemotherapy, lost my hair, lost a part of myself; yet when I was finally told I was cancer free I was a new person. So that I could fulfill my Personal Legend better?
Why was I raped when I was at Bradford School Of Business before coming to RMU? Was that a part of my Personal Legend or rather something or someone trying to interrupt my personal legend? These are all kinds of questions I have asked before well more along the lines of why was I raped...why did I have to be diagnosed with cancer why, why, why to so many other things in my life. Sure some of what I have been through is nothing compared to what other people have gone through but it is still rough still hard, and still changes a person and their perspective on life. I have to think that it all was part of a bigger thing, seeing things through the transparent eyeball as Emerson said. After reading this book I don't think I will resist things too much....maybe I need to read it again later.
One of the questions is really interesting and has me really thinking...have there been times in your life when you felt resistant to living out your personal legend? has there been times in your life when you felt resistant to living out God's will? I think at some point in all of our lives we all have been resistant to living out God's will or our Personal Legends as Coelho states. I look back on the things in my life and wonder it all had to be a part of Gods will or leading up to his will or else why would it have happened? Why would I have been diagnosed with cancer? Why did I have to spend 6 months through chemotherapy, lost my hair, lost a part of myself; yet when I was finally told I was cancer free I was a new person. So that I could fulfill my Personal Legend better?
Why was I raped when I was at Bradford School Of Business before coming to RMU? Was that a part of my Personal Legend or rather something or someone trying to interrupt my personal legend? These are all kinds of questions I have asked before well more along the lines of why was I raped...why did I have to be diagnosed with cancer why, why, why to so many other things in my life. Sure some of what I have been through is nothing compared to what other people have gone through but it is still rough still hard, and still changes a person and their perspective on life. I have to think that it all was part of a bigger thing, seeing things through the transparent eyeball as Emerson said. After reading this book I don't think I will resist things too much....maybe I need to read it again later.
