"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is a novel that tells the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who travels from Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way, he learns to listen to his heart and to follow his dreams. The book is a philosophical allegory about finding one's destiny and the importance of pursuing one's personal legend.
But I think that's one of the one of the the values in asking existential questions is that it does force you to confront what matters to you. And I think that it's very easy to forget what matters to you. I mean, you know, to take tie this back to fiction. I know that um a book that you like is The Alchemist.
""The speaker mentions 'The Alchemist' as a book that the other speaker likes, and relates it to the theme of forgetting what is intuitively and instinctively meaningful."