I am reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and am enchanted by the idea of achieving your Personal Legend. The book is centered around the idea that everyone has a Personal Legend, aka destiny, to fulfill. This novel is all about one young shepherd’s quest to realize his.

That got me thinking - what’s my Personal Legend?

I consider myself one of the lucy ones. When I first learned that crafting sentences and paragraphs and sentences was fun, I knew I wanted to be a writer. I was ten. I wrote my first poem in my tenth year and countless creative writing fiction and nonfiction stories. I told everyone I wanted to be a writer.

If I had to guess, my Personal Legend must involve writing. It could be that either

1. I’ve realized my Personal Legend already, by virtue of becoming a writer or
2. There is some work of fiction or nonfiction that I am supposed to create over the course of my career

Some ideas are like the wind. They enter my brain and leave as quickly as they came. The goal is to write down everything - all the ideas - until one (or two or three) lodges in my brain and won’t leave. That, perhaps, will be my Personal Legend.

What’s yours?

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