After finishing The Alchemist, I realized that throughout reading the book I learned a lot about myself that I never really focused on before. My life so far has been full of big adventures and without them I definitely wouldn't be the person I am today. Dating has been one of these great adventures for me, the time I've put into other people usually doesn't affect my adventurous spirit but lately I've realized that I've set what I want to do on the back burner. Reading this book has really helped me see how important life is and how truly short it is. Although we're still in high school, we shouldn't give up on our adventurous spirit even at such an early stage in life. An adventure doesn't have to be something you'd watch in a movie, it simply has to be something you enjoy doing. I wish that I would have realized how detrimental I've been to my adventurous side lately, maybe I wouldn't have missed so many great opportunities. Regretting your past doesn't change your future and I'm a firm believer in this. Rather than living my life wishing I would've done things differently, I choose to embrace my decisions because without my mistakes and missed opportunities I wouldn't know as much about life as I do now. I guess what I'm trying to say is that life isn't always going to be fair to you and that's okay, what we do with what life throws at us is what determines whether or not we're happy and so we determine whether or not we're happy; I guess now that I know that after reading The Alchemist, I'm okay with that.
www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_don_t_regret_regret "Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see" - Anonymous
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