Brida
March 21, 2009
I don’t know if it was me or the author, but I found the story going round and round without reaching any conclusions here. As usual Paulo Coelho delivers a story of love, strife, quests, knowledge, magic and emotions. Brida is a young Irish girl who is in search of knowledge about magic, about the world and more importantly about herself. She struggles to find her destiny and is torn between her relationships and her quest to transform herself.
There are always times when we question ourselves; our behaviour, our decisions and choices. Not many of us are happy with the kind of person we have become. The answer according to this book, lies in finding a soulmate. Someone, who shares more than juts love and physical attraction with you. A person who, technically, contains part of your soul. It says, there are pieces of us scattered all over the world. And when you find your soulmate, you find that missing piece in you that completes you….. just a profound way of saying you feel complete when you are with your soulmate.
The story although extremely filmy for my taste makes sense, at least till you are paying close attention. This was not one of those Paulo Coelho books that i just could not put down. Somewhere on the way, I realized I had no clue what I was supposed to be inferring from the book. That you keep trusting and sharing and being let down till you find the so-called “true love”? That you prepare yourselves for several risks till you finally find the perfect match? Well in that case I’d say you’ll be really lucky if you find your soulmate among the first hundred relationships you have!!! But yes, for me a soulmate truly is one who makes me feel complete. And I must say I’m pretty lucky 
I’ll just tweak the famous Alchemist quote here… When you really need someone, the entire universe conspires to let you find them, and help u keep them 
Cheers!!!
