New Delhi, May 19 -- Paulo Coelho wrote this line in The Alchemist. It is one of the most quietly devastating sentences in the book. It does not announce itself loudly. It arrives simply, without drama. And then it stays.

The line is not about religion. It is not about gratitude in the shallow, motivational-poster sense. It is about something far more specific and far more uncomfortable.

It is about what happens when you are given something good and choose not to see it. The blessing does not disappear. It transforms. And what it transforms into is the thing that haunts you.

Coelho understood that most human suffering is not caused by the absence of good things. It is caused by the failure to recognize the good things that are already ...