hi again

hey everyone welcome back so have you read the story siddhartha by herman hesse it's about this kid called siddhartha he grows up in in india in a town he has a good family a good life growing up but siddhartha is always driven by this thirst for for something more he's always seeking new knowledge he's always

he's looking for that path to self-discovery he wants to understand himself he wants to understand his place in the world and the town where he grows up it doesn't provide that for him and then one day he actually sees a group of traveling monks passing through the town and these monks they're they're they're

following a life of discipline of self-sacrifice of aestheticism i believe it's called they fast they abstain from worldly pleasures all in the name of achieving that enlightenment and achieving that self-discovery so siddhartha when he sees these monks passing through he's intrigued and curious and he thinks that maybe that's a pathway to getting to that

self-discovery so he leaves town he leaves his family behind and he follows with a friend he follows these monks so he lives this basic life of suffering and of sacrifice for for years and then one day he just he looks around and he sees these monks he sees all the sacrifices they're going

through and he realizes that none of these guys are actually any close to that to that pathway of self-discovery none of them understand their existence or their role in the world or where where they are and where they're going so he leaves these guys behind he keeps wandering he uh he actually finds the

buddha talks to the buddha in that conversation he realizes that pathway of stripping everything away of living his like minimalist life in order to discover the self that that hasn't worked for him he doesn't join the buddha he keeps wandering and then one day he meets this beautiful woman and he falls in love with this woman and