If you only walk when it’s sunny, you’ll never reach your destination

Paul Coelho is a Brazilian novelist known for his writings that employ rich symbolism. In a sense he is a spiritualist, for often in these novels, he captures our imaginations with stories, parables, and poetry that forces us to look inward. Coelho’s work has been described as a combination of literature and self-help. In fact, his novel “The Alchemist” is about finding one’s destiny. This book was written in only two weeks in 1987. Paul explained that he was able to write this novel at such a quick pace for “it was already written in my soul.” When I solely and exclusively move in steady stride, lifting and putting down one foot at a time, and where though my feet never hit the ground at the same time, I am walking toward the bright sunlight, where does this movement come to pass? I move exclusively at no particular time in the past or future. It is only when it is bright with sunlight. My arms stretch out in a specified direction in order to reach for it. I wish to comprehend it. I move toward this place where I long to be going. Destinations, worth their while, generally encompass a journey or process. They take time, energy, and motivation to reach a destination of choice. If the work involved in reaching a targeted goal or objective only happens when the climate is sunny, that would lengthen the amount of time or days to accomplish things.  The sun is a metaphor for positive, healthy, and happy moments. The converse would involve negative, indelicate, and troubled times. Ultimately, it requires the ability to work at both sunny and darker times in life in order to achieve and succeed. Again, this requires the understanding that anything worthwhile involves time, stamina, and an impulse or catalyst. If you are interested in achieving you might want to adopt this mantra, or one similar:     Any worthwhile accomplishment involves being comfortable, both day and night, working toward that goal. The goal being something worthy of your time and energy. We leave procrastination and laziness behind. Paul Coelho poetically poses this idea of intention, so that we can discover the importance of the idea of working hard and using time wisely to follow and accomplish your dreams, on our own. So, the object of our intent will have great influence on what objectives, goals, targets, or purpose are accomplished, achieved, fulfilled, attained, and realized. Therefore, we rise up and work day and night to reach our destination.