Achieving great happiness requires traveling to far-off places. Why or Why not?

In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, regarding the statement "To achieve great happiness you must be willing to travel to far off places," I would suggest that this is true on several levels. In life, on a literal basis, we often are asked to "go the distance," or take a road that requires more than we might want to give.

Explanation:

In the novel it stays “achieving great happiness requires traveling to far off places”. I agree with this statement because no one can be happy if they never go anywhere. It is crucial to venture off to far places when trying to be happy whether one physically travels or mentally goes on a journey of self-discovery.

In any effort to be happy there is always a journey one has to go on. Everyone is going through life and some stay in the same place their entire life and say they're happy but in reality, they're just comfortable with being safe and that's not what life’s about. People only get one chance at life and if one has a dream of traveling or just going places they always wanted to see they should. As a child, everyone wants to see the…show more content…

They'll need to go through their own path face that part of their journey and grow as a person.

In conclusion, to be happy one has to travel to far-off places but the physical destination doesn’t need to be far Everything is interconnected and deep down we all speak the same language. The Alchemist has many themes one of which is all creation speaks one language and the earth has a soul. It is important to know the language of the world so that one can understand how things happen.

should you be the one doing this journal entry? it says "your special talent or skill". are you gonna lie 'bout your talent and make us fake a talent for you?

also this is a really easy journal entry, you can just think of a skill your good at and write did you work hard to become good at this skill (ex: drawing, writing, math, playing music, etc.) or does it come naturally (like a cool trick that you can do with your body). you can do all of that in 150 words. just try and think of a talent and even if your bad at this talent just say your working hard to become good at it.