Do you have a goal? What is it?
I do believe that a person has a personal legend to fulfill. What is a personal legend? It is the reason why we are alive. We have dreams, that are not necessarily the dreams that our parents, or society has for us. So, we must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives. The message in Veronika decides to die is that: dare to be different. You are unique, and you have to accept you as you are, instead of trying to repeat other people’s destinies or patterns. Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. Normality is the capacity to express your feelings. From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.
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A teacher once told me that people hold back from expressing their true feelings because they have been taught to fear ridicule. But it is only if you take the risk to share your heart that you can become open and receive all the wonderful blessings that life has to offer. It takes a brave warrior to follow his own dreams and dance to the music of his soul; but a warrior who can do this gives others the wonderful gift of freedom to do the same.
i think that the personal legend is the key to the felicity but it’s dificult to find it…..you try to find it
“I do believe that a person has a personal legend to fulfill. What is a personal legend? It is the reason why we are alive. We have dreams….
From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.”
Yes…. but even if you are…it hurts anyway…
…life is cruel, sometimes.
love
Agnieszka
Follow your heart it is your compass on this journey ,the more you honor and cherish yourself the more of a heroine you become in your own story Blessings Tania..
Ithink I m searching for another personal legend to fulfill as i went on the path shown by my heart but i feel now i have fallen in a rut.We need to renew our search continuously.THANKS
Swati
A worthy goal is to be true to oneself. It may take a considerable time to discover what this means, but even steps of a journey to enlightenment are each meaningful.
our reason to live is our essence of life..the meaning of our existance..we should fight for this ‘goal’, for this dream..because this dream, this legend is US…
Wake up before we die…
Yes I do have a personal goal and today it is “crossing borders” to see myself as I never did before…
Insane?
Normal?
Love,
All Ways.
Hildegarde
Thank you for the inspiration Aart. I have lived a life full of strange and wondrous events. Some I have dreamed and imagined, some I have not. And yet, for all its crazy twists and turns, I would not have it otherwise. What surprises me is the element of magic… Just when I think I have a grasp on reality, life throws me for a loop. I realize I am just beginning to develop as a person. To define myself away from the roles to which society expects us to adhere. That’s when the fun begins!
This makes me think about “peeling oranges”. A friend of mine told me once. I did not understood. Yesterday evening I did.
Yes our past is like a fruit, and we have to peel it, so to find our true senses, our true oneself.
But some things are questionning to be shared. They don’t express with evidence, or not at all.
Yet, some destinies have some similar parts. As colours and feelings belong to anyone, kinship exists. And some think plagiary when there’s sometimes synchronicity and magic.
I guess no artists could say, he hadn’t feel the wor(l)d of another. Experimenting patterns.
Our choice are not made by chance.
No artist could say, he’s made only by himself, as he goes and draw from the same source, ancestors went. Of course this doesn’t prevent him from being critical, and follow what fits the well to his heart.
And anyway, an artist must be happy to be a model, moreover when it’s for Good.
Beautiful, but harsh is the way. Though you really help me. Thank you.
Love.
The personal legend, today, maybe more than ever, is like a journey that the body can travel, but the mind can’t fathom. There are so many things within our reach and yet the psychology of the world is so powerful that we cannot grasp and accept that which we are as individuals. The loss of innocence lies in the moment when your socitey begins to define you by their own measures.
All the things both great and awful of which I have been involved, have been of my own mind and of my own doing; and in the acceptance of the anamoly that is my existence - I find power and peace.
Giving love…yes…that’s what it is.
Brings me pain, tears,…sadness, but I still go on loving.
I get hurt, get bruised sometimes, and…after a few moments…or more…I forget…and forgive…
I don’t know why…but I am always like that.
I keep on loving people…hoping…yes… always hoping that it’ll change them somehow…
that life will be full of love.. someday.
Maybe…..
:-)
love
Agnieszka
Agnieszka,
I wish you love.
You had the chance to meet Paulo, his and new friends. Why wouldn’t you keep that love to your hear? As to make an image of the gorgeous feelings, you had the love to receive.
Keep it closer to your heart, so it could manifest in your brain as a sacred Gift, for full love and happiness.
Open your heart like this, for a meet like it was, would mother Creation.
Gratefully.
I am a newcomer to the world of Paulo Coelho (currently I’m reading “The Alchemist” in my twelfth grade English class) but from what I’ve gathered so far, Paulo’s main message seems to be one of people seizing control of their destiny, finding and following their “Personal Legend,” and avoiding a stagnant, meaningless existence. I’m guessing, because most people on this blog are avid fans of Paulo, that their life goals are quite similar to his in this sense.
Personally, while I believe that finding your destiny is an admirable goal, I think that helping those who are trapped by the cruelties of the world (poverty, war, dictatorship, etc.) escape and be able to lead safe and happy lifestyles is a more important goal, and what I consider to be my goal. Perhaps this is my “Personal Legend;” frankly I think the pursuit of justice and equality is more important than the pursuit of self. For example, what if someone believed that his or her destiny was to be (God forbid) a murder or a terrorist? I think that the majority of us would then not wish this person to fulfill his or her “Personal Legend.”
In any case, back to my life goal: To put it simply, I want to help make the world a better place, as cliché as that might sound. I don’t yet know in what specific capacity but I know that I want to join the Peace Corps after college. Mr. Coelho (and my English teacher) might argue that school is just one of the obstacles that is suppressing my true dreams, but I view high school and college not as a roadblock but as a path to help my unlock me true potential. After the Peace Corps, I do not know exactly what I want to do. Perhaps I will become a teacher, or a writer, or a diplomat, or a social worker. Or none of these things. In any of these scenarios, college is a significant stepping stone that will help me (and in many cases, be necessary) in my endeavors.
I also have the notion of someday wanting to marry and have children. Lately I’ve been wondering if that is truly a personal goal or merely me trying to fulfill the role that my society wants me to. Yet I truly love working with kids, as a babysitter, tutor, or even just a friend. I also know that the love of my family is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received, and I want to pass that on to the next generation. I want to experience being a mother someday, both the joy and the suffering of it. Isn’t it one of the ultimate human experiences?
At the present moment, I’m not too concerned about this goal because I know that I want to wait a long time before having a family of my own. I am much more focused on my present: finishing high school in the best way I can, and afterwards embarking on a great four year exploration in college. So while I do not have a set roadmap for the rest of my life, I do think the most important aspect of goals is not letting them detract from living and experiencing the present moment. I am a firm believer in the Carpe Diem philosophy. Thousands of authors and philosophers before me have written about this concept much more eloquently and thoroughly than I could ever hope to. I will close with one of their thoughts, specifically that of Borges, who says simply, “the future exists now.”