“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born…”
(David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)
The beginning of my journey started out like most life changing events do… On an ordinary day, I got dumped. Badly. I fought valiantly (maybe not intelligently) to hold on to the relationship but lost in the end. Upon inspecting my life I saw that I hated my job – making next to nothing, I was living at home, and I was humiliated.
So what did I do? I joined a gym. I didn’t have enough money to drown my sorrows with good ole Jose Cuervo so my sister took pity on me and paid for a gym membership. Just to give me something to do. And that my friends was the beginning…
Yogitastic 
Sam, what? how did I not know about this? Is this true??
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is the tale of Santiago, an Andalusian guard
boy content to wander via the Spanish areas as well as communities with his faithful flcok till a recurring dream regarding locating his treasure at the Pyramids of Egypt rousts him from complacency.
In trying to understand his dream, Santiago encounters a sensible old guy which calls himself Melchizedek, the King of
Salem, which sets the child off on a quest to discover his Personal Legend:
In Lena Haloway’s dystopian culture love is dangerous and also prohibited.
In this dystopian novel concerning restricted love by award succeeding writer Lauren Oliver,
comes the tale of a gal who thinks that love is to be worried, up until she meets a boy which alters her thoughts and her life.