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| <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> | ||
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| “They’re not my sheep anymore,” he said to himself, without | ||
| nostalgia. “They must be used to their new shepherd, and have | ||
| probably already forgotten me. That’s good. Creatures like the | ||
| sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.” | ||
| He thought of the merchant’s daughter, and was sure that she | ||
| had probably married. Perhaps to a baker, or to another shepherd | ||
| who could read and could tell her exciting stories—after all, he | ||
| probably wasn’t the only one. But he was excited at his intuitive | ||
| understanding of the camel driver’s comment: maybe he was also | ||
| learning the universal language that deals with the past and the | ||
| present of all people. “Hunches,” his mother used to call them. The | ||
| boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden | ||
| immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the | ||
| histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know | ||
| everything, because it’s all written there. | ||
| “Maktub,” the boy said, remembering the crystal merchant. | ||
| The desert was all sand in some stretches, and rocky in others. | ||
| When the caravan was blocked by a boulder, it had to go around it; | ||
| if there was a large rocky area, they had to make a major detour. If | ||
| the sand was too fine for the animals’ hooves, they sought a way | ||
| where the sand was more substantial. In some places, the ground | ||
| was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. The animals balked at | ||
| such places, and the camel drivers were forced to dismount and | ||
| unburden their charges. The drivers carried the freight themselves | ||
| over such treacherous footing, and then reloaded the camels. If a | ||
| guide were to fall ill or die, the camel drivers would draw lots and | ||
| appoint a new one. | ||
| But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many | ||
| detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the | ||
| same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to | ||
| its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis. | ||
| When the people saw that star shining in the morning sky, they | ||
| knew they were on the right course toward water, palm trees, | ||
| shelter, and other people. It was only the Englishman who was | ||
| unaware of all this; he was, for the most part, immersed in reading | ||
| his books. | ||
| The boy, too, had his book, and he had tried to read it during the | ||
| first few days of the journey. But he found it much more interesting | ||
| to observe the caravan and listen to the wind. As soon as he had | ||
| learned to know his camel better, and to establish a relationship | ||
| with him, he threw the book away. Although the boy had developed | ||
| a superstition that each time he opened the book he would learn | ||
| something important, he decided it was an unnecessary burden. | ||
| He became friendly with the camel driver who traveled | ||
| alongside him. At night, as they sat around the fire, the boy related | ||
| to the driver his adventures as a shepherd. | ||
| During one of these conversations, the driver told of his own life. | ||
| “I used to live near El Cairum,” he said. “I had my orchard, my | ||
| children, and a life that would change not at all until I died. One | ||
| year, when the crop was the best ever, we all went to Mecca, and I | ||
| satisfied the only unmet obligation in my life. I could die happily, | ||
| and that made me feel good. | ||
| “One day, the earth began to tremble, and the Nile overflowed its | ||
| banks. It was something that I thought could happen only to others, | ||
| never to me. My neighbors feared they would lose all their olive | ||
| trees in the flood, and my wife was afraid that we would lose our | ||
| children. I thought that everything I owned would be destroyed. | ||
| “The land was ruined, and I had to find some other way to earn a | ||
| living. So now I’m a camel driver. But that disaster taught me to | ||
| understand the word of Allah: people need not fear the unknown if | ||
| they are capable of achieving what they need and want. | ||
| “We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or | ||
| our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we | ||
| understand that our life stories and the history of the world were | ||
| written by the same hand.” | ||
| Sometimes, their caravan met with another. One always had | ||
| something that the other needed—as if everything were indeed | ||
| written by one hand. As they sat around the fire, the camel drivers | ||
| exchanged information about windstorms, and told stories about | ||
| the desert. | ||
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