Read: Brida
A magazine suggested that Brida was a romantic read, that it speaks about Soulmates, so I made a note in my mobile phone to buy this. After sometime, I got a text from my Ate Rose if I read Paulo Coelho books. I said yes. She told me she’ll be giving me a couple of his books, which she hopes I have not read yet. Surprise, surprise, Brida was one of them.
As with other Coelho books, Brida is philosophical, insightful, spiritual and magical. It has an occult-at-the-backdrop-of-modern-reality kind of feel. I particularly appreciate the merging of predominantly conceived as paganistic ideas with that of Christianity.
This book does not speak about Soulmates alone; however, it is a concept that acts as a definitive ancillary. The book even gave a clue on how you will know your Soulmate. Interesting, huh? It even said that finding more than one Soulmate in a lifetime will only result to suffering and broken hearts. The book explains the concept of having more than one Soulmate in a lifetime fairly well. In the many insights it brings forth about Soulmates, what i find most bittersweet is the idea that meeting a Soulmate may only mean learning a very important lesson, a lesson that will free a person from that which slaves; thereby allowing movement to a new stage in life. In such a case, your Soulmate is not lost because it was never yours.
Brida, for me, is about a search for one’s path, one’s self, even. Finding one’s Soulmate is part of this search.
I read somewhere before, that the books that find our way are the books we are meant to be acquainted with, for whatever reason there is. Apparently, I am meant to meet Brida.
I am searching now..According to the book, every woman can make use of the Four Rings of Revelation in communing with the Universe: Virgin, Martyr, Saint and Witch. I can’t seem to see myself as a Martyr, nor a Saint. That leaves two other choices… 
October 31st, 2009 at 11:08 am
Pahiram!!!Just finished Zahir. Nice then. Its about two people who loved each other very much but someone has to leave to save whatever beautiful is left before it becomes completely lost
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 am
hi, mahal! nice to know you read it na. at least the book was read, not nga lang by me hehehehehe. and it’s good that you like it. I just never had the interest (there’s another word, but…) to finish Paolo’s books.
mwah! will look for my other coelho books, if there are others left in my bookshelf, tucked behind others… 