SIDDHARTHA

"Indeed his soul was not with the trade. The business was good enough to provide him with the money for Kamala, and it earned him much more than he needed. Besides from this, Siddhartha's interest and curiosity was only concerned with the people, whose businesses, crafts, worries, pleasures, and acts of foolishness used to be as alien and distant to him as the moon. However easily he succeeded in talking to all of them, in living with all of them, in learning from all of them, he was still aware that there was something which separated him from them and this separating factor was him being a Samana. He saw mankind going through life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured, he saw them scolding and insulting each other, he saw them complaining about pain at which a Samana would only smile, and suffering because of deprivations which a Samana would not feel."


The meaning of this passage is that a person that is new to an environment can adapt to the new environment depending on the person ability to get him/her self involve with people. However a person ability of adapting themselves to a new environment doesn't mean that the person enjoy the experience. A person that has been in a society where everything is "calm" or everything that surround the person is build by a specific system where everything is always the same and having a change of society and environment can make a person view thing in such a dramatic way as if they are a different person because of the change. 


This passage is important to me because it show how this "Man" Siddhartha has the ability to get involve with anybody he come across to, he also has the ability of learning without a problem, he has the ability to be care free of certain things like (Money) that a normal person or a person that doesn't have it wouldn't be care free about. Is more interesting in people actions then in how good his life is. He see people as these weird creatures that have so many defection and still manage to survive.  He will be able to love them and be despised which made him be more curious about people. Because he would see things that he couldn't feel, thing that he couldn't explain to him self why is this person feeling that or acting like that, thing that were unknown to him. In this world you would say that he doesn't need anything because he already has it all but this also show me that a person can have everything they wanted in life and still have an emptiness in them. That maybe there is something worst then not having anything is not feeling anything.