The Alchemist

I have the habit of reading mostly ghost stories, vampire stories, stories of crime and detection, and by authors like Jeffrey Archer. One exception was the Harry Potter series - I was first very reluctant to read this thinking they would be very childish. But after reading a few pages of the first book, I became crazy of them , esp. of Hermione Granger(the character which I think acts like me in most of the cases :-))), that I finished all five books in four days.
One day during my final semester in college, Saranya showed me this book, "The Alchemist" by Paul Coelho. She told me that itz a bit philosophical - but I starred at her, why was she giving me this book though she knows that I don't read this kind. But nothing better to do that day, I started it. Well, I nearly travelled with Santiago(the main character, Coelho has used to convey his thoughts), and started to realize how many dreams that I have had before and how many I have discarded without giving a second thought about it. Lost are lost. Now I am seeing the inner meaning of each and every small thought and dream, and why it occurs to me at a particular point of time. I feel each about-to-happen incident is told to every human before it happens and itz only that he/she is not able to realize it.
Thanx to Saranya, or, else I wud have been very much ignorant of my dreams and thoughts yet.