https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/personal_legend/ Recent content in Personal_legend on George's Blog Hugo en-US Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-alchemist/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:08 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/the-alchemist/ <p>Not much to say about this one. I picked it because I wanted to read something lighter. Published in 1988 by a Brazilian author this is a short story about a shepherd boy in Spain that has a dream that recurs to him about a treasure near the pyramids. This launches the boy into a quest to find it where he encounters many interesting characters and learns &ldquo;life lessons&rdquo;. The two main points of this book are that each person has their own &ldquo;personal legend&rdquo; (or dharma) and that the secret to happiness is in pursuit of your personal legend. The second point is &ldquo;when you really want something to happen, the whole universe will conspire so that your wish comes true&rdquo;. Overall, it was pretty good, I wanted something lighter and maybe overshot. This would probably be very interesting reading for a small little, tiny man child.</p>