The Alchemist ( Chapter 1 Part 2 )

Part2 Chapter 1"I need to sell some wool," the boy told the merchant.The shop was busy, and the man asked the shepherd to wait until the afternoon. So the boy sat on the steps of the shop and took a book from his bag."I didn't know shepherds knew how to read," said a girl's voice behind him.The girl was typical of the region of Andalusia, with flowing black hair, and eyes that vaguely recalled the Moorish conquerors."Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books," he answered. During the two hours that they talked, she told him she was the merchant's daughter, and spoke of life in the village, where each day was like all the others. The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related the news from the other towns where he had stopped. It was a pleasant change from talking to his sheep."How did you learn to read?" the girl asked at one point."Like everybody learns," he said. "In school.""Well, if you know how to read, why are you just a shepherd?"The boy mumbled an answer that allowed him to avoid responding to her question. He was sure the girl would never understand. He went on telling stories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fear and surprise. As the time passed, the boy found himself wishing that the day would never end, that her father would stay busy and keep him waiting for three days. He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair, his days would never be the same again.But finally the merchant appeared, and asked the boy to shear four sheep. He paid for the wool and asked the shepherd to come back the following year.

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    • A QUEEN!

      What a nice idea!

      If you could, Please find her!

      A queen and 44...!!!

    • Passive ????????

      I'm so sorry If I've done it ! I will try to be active more

  • Hi Darius,

     

    Love for the first time is really sweet.

     

    But some say, " Love is sweeter the second time around"

     

    What do you think of it?

     

    Thanks,

    mayumee

     

    P.S.

    I'm so glad that I can hear also the story. You are doing a very great job, Darius!

    Thank you so much.

     

     

     

     

    • Love is love

              And I'm sure you can remember my idea about Love as an inclusive reflection of a heart. Can't you ?

      And based on this idea there is only one heart which you can see all reflections on .So we can't talk about second one. Thinking about second one means the first one had not been a real love .

       

    • Dearest Darius,

      And I'm sure you can remember my idea about Love as an inclusive reflection of a heart. 

       

      I've almost forgotten about it. Sorry, but would you discuss it a bit with me again?

      I love to hear "ideals" from you, my friend. What I remember is about our discussion about a certain flower (lotus or lily or something like that) and about his friend. You said this friend of his is his heart's reflection. This is what I remember.

       

      About my previous question, I referred to the kind of love that is something romantic in nature. Couldn't we love for the second time? Do you mean if we love the second time, the first one, wouldn't count as real one. We could only love for real only once in our lifetime? (I mean here the love bet. men and women).

       

      Thanks for raising a nice topic,

      Have a great day ahead,

      mayumee

    • What a nice discussion!!

      We also like to hear about it.

    • Dear Mayumi

      I put a new discussion entitled " A simple question " and I'm waiting for ideas there and I will remind our old discussion after that .

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    • Love has got its omens and signs and as you are following them you are in your right way .
  • Dear Ensie !
    If we try to be fair we should confess the nature is somehow one of our parents and as a baby who his/her behaviors at first are originated from his/her parents .We are under effects of everything around us let me make an example .
    Think about a way and a destination you should walking through this was way to reach to your destination but way is not exactly same meaning of walking.And another example
    Can you remember your first teacher in the primary school that teacher who's learned you
    reading and writing for the first time and before that you couldn't do anything about that . Where is she/he???
    Of course you continue your education to get higher grades and your first teacher and his/her teaching although had been so valuable but that'd been only one stage of your education .
    So
    The most important thing is :::
    Go one . over and over
    Don't stop
    It remind me a wave , it is alive until it is going on . a stopped wave is a dead wave !

    Ensie said:
    Dear Darius
    Do you mean that we should learn from the nature?We aren't perfect but the nature is?Do you think so?
  • Dear Ensie
    We are thinking we are the axis of the world , a universal criteria whom all events should be certified by. Everest had been the highest mountain for millions of the years but Gorge Everest in 1865 was the first one who said that's the highest one in the world. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the fist people who could climb it .

    All of us are going to live peacefully and there are so many idea and ISM about life to show us how we can live peacefully while all sheep are doing it well . we can think about that . how they can do that ? What could be their rules ? sure we can't think about them because we are human and human is over than a sheep even if its way would be the best one we couldn't accept it for us we are human the axis of the world .

    Ensie said:
    "Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books," he answered.
    There is a famous sentence:Experience is father of science.
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