the alchemist

I remember talking to a friend about the book.
I remember later reading the book review and falling in love with a line quoted in the book,

“when you desire something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it”.

I remember how I wanted to read it so much but I didn’t have the time to borrow or buy it.
I remember vividly how lucky I felt when it just landed on my desk, being related to a project.
It felt as though the line came alive… that the universe conspired… that fate worked its magic…
just so the book could land in my hands.

“God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you”.

I had hoped to find clarity, an answer to a simple question. But having read the book recently, it left me more confused. As though my senses were heightened, and I became overly observant… unnecessarily reading into new things that may bear no meaning… and what I had long understood soon became foreign.

Just whom is the universe conspiring with and for what reason?

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been standing at a crossroad
in clouded deliberation
broken by distraction
of birds flying in a row

in a momentary reflection
I wondered if I should follow
but they headed in a direction
to where there’s no existing road



Read:
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho