Maktub.

I see a lot of inner personal development with our shepherd, he is slowly learning that not all of life's lessons can not be learned from herding sheep. He is constantly reflecting on himself on how he has grown. How if he never trusted in the pygmy, this would not have happened, and he would still be a shepherd. He would not have helped that man at the crystal shop. He is already learning many more things he would never have learned by being a shepherd.

(Personally I think there could be a little less talk about constant self development in the book because it seems to take up a lot of space in it, but it is good for reminding you what all he has learned.)

My other item is that, what is the issue with the constant portrayal of the wind? It has made several points in the book through the main character. Could it be referencing to how he is changing over the course of this book? How the wind is always free, yet always changing? It could be trying to tell him that he is starting to become like the wind, in how that although he did not want change at first, he is learning that change gives him freedom. And although the change may be hard and painful at times, it has always led him to a good direction; giving him freedom. Case in point, when he was robbed and didn't know what to do, he ended up working at a crystal shop, making it well known and through change made it very popular, giving him the money he needed to continue on with his journey.

-David Yarbrough