The book talks about a small town shepherd boy travelling all over just chasing his dream -which is a treasure unknown to anyone….by teaching him to recognize the ‘omens’ and follow them religiously to reach the ‘treasure’…And when the boy does exactly that, things just happen to fall in place at the right time and the right place….
Well, If only achieving one’s dreams were as simple as following the ‘omens’ and going where they take you!
All of us do dare to dream..And dream real big as well! But how many of us actually even reach close to 1% of achieving that dream? Reasons for not achieving may be multifarious…The most common I believe, contrary to the statement “the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true” is the rest of the universe itself! How many times has it happened that one has dreamed of doing something but couldnt do that owing to family pressure/peer pressure/societal pressure/ atomospheric pressure [:)]???? Which part of the universe really conspires in ‘favour’ of your dreams?? None I bet…
You might say, the one who ultimately makes his dreams come true is the one who has enough courage to defy all the aforementioned pressures and simply go about chasing them…Will that really work?? Consider the same shepherd boy in the story, Just imagine he weren’t just a character in the story but instead was a real person living in the 21st Century…Now let us say he has a desire to travel…And he wishes to go to Egypt in search of an unknown treasure and has enormous courage to defy all the opposition he faces…But he doesnt have the money…Unlike the fable where a King gives him the two ‘omen charms’, ‘Urim’ and ‘Thummim’ to guide him throughout his journey, the reality would be that he wont have enough money to perhaps even travel from one end of the city to another by local transport!! Now thats exactly the difference between a fable and reality….
I am not trying to be pessimistic here by saying that dreams dont come true…They do..They most certainly do…Rather, the point Im trying to make is that even dreams need to be realistic…and within reach…coz even for simple dreams to come true, one must have the bare minimum resources to even DARE to dream…Perhaps if two different people are on an equal footing in terms of resources/surroundings/the rest of the universe and they both dream of similar things, then there is a good chance that both of them realise their dreams!! On the other hand if a poor lowly shepherd boy and a multi millionaire both dream of flying to the moon, who actually even has the potential to realize his dream is anybody’s guess….
Juggling my thoughts... 