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| <h6>Author</h6> | ||
| <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> | ||
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| The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal | ||
| glasses. He was selling better than ever…as if time had turned back | ||
| to the old days when the street had been one of Tangier’s major | ||
| attractions. | ||
| “Business has really improved,” he said to the boy, after the | ||
| customer had left. “I’m doing much better, and soon you’ll be able to | ||
| return to your sheep. Why ask more out of life?” | ||
| “Because we have to respond to omens,” the boy said, almost | ||
| without meaning to; then he regretted what he had said, because | ||
| the merchant had never met the king. | ||
| “It’s called the principle of favorability, beginner’s luck. Because | ||
| life wants you to achieve your Personal Legend,” the old king had | ||
| said. | ||
| But the merchant understood what the boy had said. The boy’s | ||
| very presence in the shop was an omen, and, as time passed and | ||
| money was pouring into the cash drawer, he had no regrets about | ||
| having hired the boy. The boy was being paid more money than he | ||
| deserved, because the merchant, thinking that sales wouldn’t | ||
| amount to much, had offered the boy a high commission rate. He | ||
| had assumed he would soon return to his sheep. | ||
| “Why did you want to get to the Pyramids?” he asked, to get | ||
| away from the business of the display. | ||
| “Because I’ve always heard about them,” the boy answered, | ||
| saying nothing about his dream. The treasure was now nothing but | ||
| a painful memory, and he tried to avoid thinking about it. | ||
| “I don’t know anyone around here who would want to cross the | ||
| desert just to see the Pyramids,” said the merchant. “They’re just a | ||
| pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard.” | ||
| “You’ve never had dreams of travel,” said the boy, turning to | ||
| wait on a customer who had entered the shop. | ||
| Two days later, the merchant spoke to the boy about the display. | ||
| “I don’t much like change,” he said. “You and I aren’t like Hassan, | ||
| that rich merchant. If he makes a buying mistake, it doesn’t affect | ||
| him much. But we two have to live with our mistakes.” | ||
| That’s true enough, the boy thought, ruefully. | ||
| “Why did you think we should have the display?” | ||
| “I want to get back to my sheep faster. We have to take | ||
| advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it’s | ||
| doing to help us. It’s called the principle of favorability. Or | ||
| beginner’s luck.” | ||
| The merchant was silent for a few moments. Then he said, “The | ||
| Prophet gave us the Koran, and left us just five obligations to satisfy | ||
| during our lives. The most important is to believe only in the one | ||
| true God. The others are to pray five times a day, fast during | ||
| Ramadan, and be charitable to the poor.” | ||
| He stopped there. His eyes filled with tears as he spoke of the | ||
| Prophet. He was a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he | ||
| wanted to live his life in accordance with Muslim law. | ||
| “What’s the fifth obligation?” the boy asked. | ||
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