Siddhartha Part 4

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
                                            -Siddhartha Gautama

In the last part of the book, Siddhartha finds what he was looking for; enlightenment. Siddhartha has always been very wise, but there have been a lot of teachings that had never popped on his mind before. Curiosity was always part of Siddhartha's mind and soul, which made him much wiser than what he thought. He found out that everything he needed was in himself, all he had to do was dig deeper to find it. But, what was he really looking for? He didn't really make an effort to get the things he wanted, instead he tried to get the things he wasn't really searching for. As easy as that, his old self was been left behind as his new self was born.

Siddhartha meets Vasuveda, a wise man who turned out to be the reason of his search. He teaches him about the river, which has always symbolized a lot to Siddhartha. The river told Vasuveda and Siddhartha a lot of stories that made a click on his mind. When he went to the city to look for his son, something had changed in his mind. He remembered his childhood. He was very much like his sun; escaping from family to find something, just one thing that he was looking for. This reminded me of something that happened to me a while ago. I always thought that I was going to be different than my parents, but I now notice that isn't true.

Like Siddhartha's son, I have always tried to escape. But not the same type of escape. I try to escape from my own life. Like every normal person, I have problems, but that doesn't mean I know how to solve them. Instead I run away, like when a cat runs to hide when it hears thunder. I had never realized that my actions where a lot like my mother's. Like Siddhartha in search for his son, I hadn't actually payed attention to how similar we solve problems in our lives, even though I was almost sure I wasn't going to be like her. The only difference between my mom and I is maturity. Maturity is part of the processes of changing and solving problems, which is something I temporarily lack. Someday I will be able to stay and solve my problems, like a dog stays besides his owner even though he or she can sometimes be a pain in the butt.

Siddhartha isn't a common god that thinks he is superior, like Zeus, but human, just like you, me, and everybody else in this world. Siddhartha gives inspiration and wisdom; something that most people need. Siddhartha entered to the impossible and found what he was looking, in the middle of the ashes he was reborn and just like that went up there, just by entering the impossible. Like a man once said "the only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible" -Arthur Clarke.