All detours are the only way.

"It is not our ability but our choice that shows our true identity."

After watching the fantasy journey of the shepherd boy, I remembered this sentence Dumbledore said to Harry Potter.

One,

The shepherd boy's name is Santiago, and his journey began with a simple and wonderful dream-he dreamed that he had found a treasure under the pyramid.

This originally unsurprising dream, once repeated, has the mystery of fable in it, which is an omen. So Santiago asked a gypsy woman to explain her dream. She told him that she must find the treasure that belongs to him, and he promised to take one tenth of it as the reward for this divination. The boy is still hesitating. At this time, an old king appeared, and his kindness helped lead the boy to the right path. So, San Diego took two precious stones given to him by King Salem and embarked on a wonderful journey across the ocean and desert.

In fact, the road to treasure hunting in San Diego is the road to self-redemption, which is why I quoted that sentence at the beginning.

In the process of pursuing his destiny, he can be anyone he meets, but he finally becomes himself.

When Santiago started traveling alone, he was cheated out of all his money in a bar and had to ask the owner of a crystal shop to take him in.

The boss's dream is to go to the holy city of Mecca. On the one hand, he wants to earn enough money by opening a shop. On the other hand, he is very contradictory:

"I'm afraid that once I realize my dream, I don't know how to live."

He took his dream as the only sustenance of his life and opened this crystal shop with a dull business, which is more like finding an excuse to continue pursuing his dream.

The boy met his companion Englishman, and he crossed the desert again.

The English dream is to find an alchemist in the desert and ask him the secret of alchemy. He was immersed in books all the way and didn't want to waste time observing the desert like a boy. Finally, the British found an alchemist, but the answer was to keep practicing.

He wants to save unnecessary steps and find a way to realize his dream directly, but he is actually getting farther and farther away from his real dream.

The boy met another girl named Fatima in the oasis. For an instant, San Diego felt that he had found the treasure he had dreamed of and didn't have to go treasure hunting again. But Fatima knew it was an encounter, and the boy's dream should still be in the pyramid.

She said:

"If I am really a part of your dream, then one day, you will come back to me."

The boy wanted to sacrifice his dream for love, and the alchemist told him,

"Love will never stop a person from pursuing his destiny. If it stops, it must be because it is not true love, not love expressed in cosmic language. "

The boy got his wish and came to the pyramid. When he was digging for treasure, he was robbed of all his money by a group of young gangsters. When he said that he had come for the treasure he dreamed of, a gangster leader came up to him and said:

"I won't be stupid enough to cross the whole desert for a dream that only has two times."

I have seen an interpretation of Journey to the West before, and I still remember it:

So, it may be coincidence or destiny takes a hand, "When you want something wholeheartedly, the whole universe will help you realize it." San Diego is getting farther and farther away with this belief, but getting closer and closer to the ID. The people and hardships he met along the way made him more aware of how to realize his destiny.

Second,

The very wise camel driver in the book also gave me many feelings.

The tribal war in the desert began, and everyone was frightened, but the camel driver ignored the danger. He lives today to enjoy it.

He said to the boy:

In fact, those who keep escaping, in addition to the so-called poetry and distant yearning, should still be unwilling and dissatisfied with the status quo. We want to try to broaden the boundaries of life, which is of course no problem, but if we keep staring at the unknown tomorrow, have you abandoned the place where you started? Have you neglected the scenery in front of you?

Far from home, I unconsciously felt the power of time. When I went back during the winter and summer vacations, I saw that my parents' faces seemed to be aging overnight. Obviously, you care about people, but you can no longer participate in and watch their changes. When they suddenly come to you, they are unprepared, whether they are growing up or getting old.

There are particularly magnificent kapok trees in the school, with bright flowers in spring and bare branches in autumn. Great changes seem to happen only at night, and suddenly the spring breeze and autumn rain can only be turned upside down when they pass by carelessly the next day.

Human beings are eager for meaning and purpose, and naturally hope that the world will be compassionate and intimate, and will be prompted at the same time of change, but the world's expectations of human beings are indifferent and even slow to respond, and outsiders are nothing more than that.

We are always used to this, turning other places into landscapes and pinning our hopes on strange places, so poetry has always been strange and isolated.

The outside world is certainly wonderful. How to put the origin and initial heart well is more important.

Third,

At the end of the book, there is a feeling that everything is back to the original point-the treasure is not in a distant pyramid, but in a place you are familiar with; What you are looking for is not the outside, but the inside.

It seems futile, but you must go through those detours, because this is the only way to find your destiny. As the article says: "The road has been set by various omens, and I won't take a wrong step."

Gandalf said in The Hobbit:

There is no denying that this book has a strong religious color, and at the same time it is an out-and-out chicken soup article. The author is expressing his religious experience, and keeps saying some truths that everyone knows, but not everyone can fully understand.

Some people may find this book not very enlightening. After all, there are 1000 Hamlet among 1000 readers. Different moods, different experiences, naturally different views.

Anyway, thank you for meeting San Diego at this stage. In my opinion, reading is not just a one-way acquisition of knowledge inside, a book is more like a mirror. Read as much as you can.

I have also thought about why we have to rush from one city to another and from one country to another. Naturally, no one forced me to recite words every day until I dreamed of confusing words on post-it notes. No one forced me to devote a lot of time and energy to preparing for an exam at all costs. No one forced me to drag my suitcase out of my warm home.

Therefore, whether it is a Sisyphus-style rolling stone going up the mountain or trying more possibilities, there is no indicative purpose at all, but I always know what I should not be. Maybe some roads have shortcuts, maybe some roads are leisurely and beautiful, maybe some roads are stable and have a back road, but the protagonists of those roads are not me.

Take a closer look at the people around you, some of them try their best, and finally end up miserable because of fate; Some people walk forward firmly and become glittering beings; But more people, living is living. Fate didn't lend a helping hand, and they didn't want to reach the limit of the sky on tiptoe.

In this way, we should try our best to grasp every moment of expectation. After all, it's really lucky to have an opportunity worth fighting for.

I have seen a saying before, "Just let go at the right time and seize every opportunity to eat, drink and be merry." Seize the time to beat yourself, feel different experiences as much as possible, and let yourself experience the youngest day of your life at least every day, to win, not to be steady.

Stability and stagnation, like the infiltration in Fortress Besieged, are the confusion and helplessness of the cage. But in any case, we must firmly believe that what can be imprisoned in a cage can only be dispensable to people, and the heart will eventually open and close outward. If you are willing to draw a prison for yourself, how can you complain that the world is not wide enough?

In fact, no matter what lifestyle you choose, the reality is the same, and every time you are close to perfection, you may have to pay a very high price. Behind those seemingly ideal times, it is often the polishing of the least ideal time, but many people are consumed in this process.

About a story told by the old king before the boy set out, in retrospect, this story is the guide for the boy's whole journey:

"The secret of happiness lies in seeing all the treasures in the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon."

Now I think this sentence can be interpreted as: don't forget your active thinking, so as to achieve your ultimate goal.