does the winner stand alone?

On Wednesday I bought a book at the train station news paper stand. I love books and wish I had more time for them. Reading of fiction for me looks like wasting of time. It is better to give a call to my mom, to run on a treadmill, to read something I need for my work. All this actions are real, they move my life forward. Reading of fiction is more like watching poor content TV shows and generally doing nothing.
But I like it. So, I read in English. At least I can make an excuse for myself that I am improving my language skills, which is true at some extent.
The name of the book is The Winner Stands Alone of Paolo Coelho. It is a regular book about money, feelings and freaks- all is just as I like. It's the regular adventure book in which people become desperate and happy, sick and murdered, rational and illogical, hating and loving.
At night I had to make several calls to Russia, so I decided to read the book to fill the time between the calls. In total I read about 46 pages, but I am not about it. The heading is really interesting. I do not agree that only the winner is the person which stands alone. A loser also can be alone, forgotten by everybody, lonely and disgruntled. The winner attracts people who want to get the part of benefits he can provide to them. Different relatives, grammar school friends and people who accidentally met him will ask him to help to find a job, to lend some money for two weeks or to do any other favor. But who is interested in loser?
And why does so successful and apparently very intelligent leader stand alone? Let's start from workaholics...they do stand alone. Sometimes it goes so crazy that people who concentrated on their careers do not know what to do when they get some time for themselves. And of course they do not have anybody close to spend time together, they invested all the energy in the company they worked for, not in relationships and other stuff. They were to busy working (what does not always mean making money and enjoying the things they are doing) that forgot how to talk to other people, enjoy a movie or just relax with the a mag of coffee and book the whole morning. The people like that can forget what they really want and concentrate on the careers which happened to them.
Or it can be different, people can love their work. I mean that they can be really interested in the things they are doing, because those activities match their personalities. In this case people can became extremely intelligent in one particular sphere and ignorant of the rest of the world. Usually narrow specialists can't conduct the conversation to the variety of topics and the rest of the world does not wish to talk about their professional interests all the times. Such type of people thinks that they are superior others. They do not realize that the advantage they have is really limited by their profession.
Another type of winners who feel lonely are people who are smarter than the people from their surroundings. These winners/leaders do not have anybody equal to talk to. At some point they realize that nobody really can give them a useful



to be continued