Finishing the Alchemist Response

In the ending of the alchemist, it is reveled that his treasure was back home. I think the story ended this way to show that his personal legend was just to learn. He experienced so much on this journey that he's going to carry with him forever. He also now has the courage to do many thing because the man that beat him up told him he had a similar dream that lead to the treasure but wasn't stupid enough to travel across the desert to get it. In the end that's what lead him to getting the treasure. He went home and dug where he used to sleep. IT funny how he traveled all this way just to have that one experience with that man to find out where his treasures actually lay.