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A Journey Through Life: The Alchemist
Title: A Journey Through Life: The Alchemist
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1228 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Journey Through Life: The Alchemist
I want to be a famous actress, with two children, and five houses in five different countries. Everyone has goals. Whether they involve career, relationships, or self-actualization, goals are important to the development of an individual. When we are children we tend to set our goals high and expect them to be attained early in our lives. This idealism, however, quickly fades as we either set more easily attainable goals for ourselves or simply lose …showed first 75 words of 1228 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1228 total…that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only”(151). In this way, alchemy itself is a metaphor for Personal Legend. As alchemists strive to achieve perfection (gold and eternal life) from a simple substance, a person who is discovering their Personal Legend is striving towards perfection in their own life.
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