Sunday, January 22, 2012
You've come this far...
I could not have read a better a book as Siddartha and for this (I dare say) Hermann Hesse is truly a man worthy of winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 1946. What I loved most about this novel was Siddartha's shaping of his personal ideals and his struggle to acquiesce with humanity. We can all agree that we ourselves are in Siddartha's shoes, in one way or other, in the sense that our adolescent and emergent adulthood is a time in our lives that asks a lot from us. How so? Well, for one, we must now realize that this year will be our first step to "self-realization": a time where we hold ourselves accountable for every single (if not most) aspects of our lives, and secondly we will be tested on our practice of them. The phrase "take the good with the bad" has been ever-prevalent in our lives, and now, as our latched hands unlock we are ever so tempted by what we need and what we want but we must never in any case forget that the future is not set in stone and how we face the brunt of reality is only one train of thought in the big scheme of things.
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The funny thing about Siddhartha (the story not the character)is that it leaves the reader with a sense of peace, giving some state similar to Siddhartha (the character) --despite the fact that we might not have fully experienced yet. It is through wisdom that Siddhartha learns, keeping in mind the stage where he felt he had lost his way, almost to the point of suicide. It left me with a smile when he returned to his path and became a ferryman and in a way sympathy was felt when Siddhartha's own son, who he loved unconditionally chose to leave. All in all, this was a good book to read as a class; it was easily one of the best.
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