2021 Book Recommendations

The Alchemist

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨, 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙮."

You should read this once in your life.

Recommending this book to those people who are having a hard time if they should pursue their dream or not. Because this book truly provokes you into realizing them.

This book altered my mindset, so much. Even it only has 140 pages, you would learn a lot about reaching that dream and embracing the possibility of trials that will shape us to be better people, with better judgment.

This book teaches me a ton so I'll just include my top 2 here:

1. I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present.

*This is how I perceived this part in the story. It may be different from yours since we're all experiencing different circumstances.

****

As a teen, I've been overthinking about what course would I take in college. But when I read this particular part of the book, it teaches me to just relax and not stress myself about it, it's still far. We, humans, tend to overthink about the future because we're scared about it and we wanted to secure ourselves in the future, and maybe by planning it, would turn out good and in favor of us. But that's not life. Life is full of surprises and what we planned maybe wouldn't be even realized. So take a deep breath and relax. Follow the omens.

2. Whatever your heart desires, seek for it.

We can all achieve our dreams but fear was hindering us. And this book made me realize that our fear was our enemy for reaching it. Most particularly, fear of failing. But it's human nature, we're all going to fail once in a while but, should that failure retain us from reaching it? No. Because that failure would teach us. That's why failure exists, so we can all learn and be better people. So if fear is still hindering you from pursuing that dream I would leave this one line from the book.

"You’ll spend the rest of your days knowing that you didn’t pursue your Personal Legend and that now it’s too late."

To the Omegle guy who recommends this to me, thank you so much and I hope I have a chance to talk to you again.