Recently I read the Alchemist and I am so glad that I did. I used to read small storybooks during my childhood. Later I had given up the habit of reading fiction and only focused on non-fiction. But recently I had started reading fiction after some realisations. I had written about this in a separate blog called “Fictions Tell more than Just Stories”. If you have time, give it a shot.

Initially I started it as an audiobook to pass some time, but I felt like I had to read and live through this book. So I bought and read it. I don’t know whether it’s the same omen as the one that the author mentions throughout the book. But something pushed me to read this book.

It speaks about the soul of the world, the language of the world, omens, destiny and many other spiritual ideas. Also, it speaks about love more beautifully by bridging it with hope. I don’t want to reveal anything more than that. I hope you guys will read and enjoy it.

I am not much of a spiritual person. But it didn’t make me contradict this book. Because it is about more than just spirituality. If I had to put it in the author’s voice, it speaks the language of hope. It’s the true power of this book. I think it’s the purest form of language. Throughout history, the one thing that kept us enduring life is hope.

Even when we lose everything in life, the one thing that we shouldn’t give up is hope. But life will force you in many ways to do that. So the hard part is actually keeping the hope. I think that the ones with a happy and peaceful life are the ones with the strongest hope. I am not talking about the hope of success or victory, but rather the hope to follow your heart regardless of whatever happens.

Even when we lose everything and even when everyone is telling you that you are going to fail, hope is trying again. Sometimes it is trying the same thing again in a different way. But other times it is trying something totally new or different again.

Hope is not only about obsessing over a single goal or object. It’s about following your heart persistently. The Alchemist speaks this language loud and clear. I could hear it screaming even from the other side of the world. In this story, there are multiple occasions where the boy loses everything that he had; sometimes he continued to have hope on his own, but sometimes he needed other people to help him.

The author says that when someone follows their heart, the world will help them realise their dreams. It is not a written rule, but I myself have experienced this in many parts of my life. There were a lot of people who came into my life just to help me when I was on the edge of losing it all.

But in the end, it’s always hope that wins. The boy realises that hope is not about obsession over an end; it’s enduring and enjoying the process. How does hope win? It does so by telling you to live and learn through the process, rather than obsessing over the end result.

This makes me remember the famous quote from Steve Jobs. He said, in life, dots always connect backwards, not forward.

At present, everything might seem like scattered dots. But some time in the future, when you look back, all the dots will be connected. All we need to do is follow our heart with the hope that all the dots will connect. The Alchemist connects these dots very well.

Finally, I want to say that reading this book was a wonderful journey through the life of the boy who follows his heart with hope. It also cleverly illustrates how random people help him regain his hope whenever he is on the edge of losing it all. It tells a story of love where hope plays a crucial role in it.

I don’t say there won’t be any struggles. But where there is hope, there is a will. Where there is a will, there is always a way.