Section 3

This section answered a lot of questions that were in my head. It explained a lot of Siddhartha's life and what he was going through. Siddhartha learned to be a business man, but saw his job as a game, for he was not interested in wealth. He saw normal problems in other people he found insignificant to life. He still had his ideal of a Samana. Kamala his lover, made him feel understood like no body else could. They shared a kind of love that was no common, but they both knew they could never love each other the way other could love. After a year of being a merchant Siddhartha starts to gamble, and his ideal start to fade. He has a strange dream in which he realizes and feels all his goodness is gone. He decides to leave his treasures and seek for the peaceful life he had. He doesn't say goodbye to Kamala, he just disappears, and without knowing Kamala is pregnant with his child. Siddhartha comes to the thought of suicide, he feels lonely, and depressed. While wondering through the forest, Siddhartha arrived to the river he had once passed, and reunites with Vasudeva, the ferryman he had met years before. He stays with him and learns from the river, and regains that peace he had once had within him. Govinda and Siddhartha come back together and talk, but Govinda is still a monk. He leaves Siddhartha, which know know that Gotama is sick and will eventually die. Kamala starts to follow the Buddha's steps with her son, and while trying to find him, she is bitten by a snake. Kamala is helped by Vasudeva and Siddhartha. Kamala is dies, and Siddhartha is left with his son.

This section made me think a lot because there are a lot of things that were left hanging. What will happen to Siddhartha and his son? Will Siddhartha reunite with govinda and Gotama once again? Will he stay with Vasudeva and keep on learning from the river? When will he become illuminated? All this questions came right to my mind when I read this couple of chapters. I felt in disagreement when Siddhartha thinks he had to suffer to achieve happiness and knowledge. Why would you have to suffer to achieve happiness, greatness or knowledge? Not everyone has to follow those steps. I certainly believe this is false, and why would you have to experience richness or wealth to understand they are not important. Those two ideals or believes make no sense to me. I believe that with effort you can do anything with out suffering or experiencing things.