Row, Row, Row Your Boat...

Pages 82-95 of Siddhartha are made up of the chapter "The Ferryman". This is the story of how Siddhartha returns from a land of abundance and riches, and changes once again as he goes back home. He meets a ferryman called Vasudeva who takes him across the river. 

It seems as though Siddhartha (I'm going to refer to him as Sid from now on) is in love with this river. It's the same one that he crossed while traveling with the Samanas. But I'm confident that he has a good reason for this. In page 82 Sid says "How he loved this river, how it enchanted him , how gratefull he was to it." I believe that the reasin for this is that it symbolizes the change he took with the Samanas. 

But his love for the river isn't only physical. He also wants to be in it all the time, like when he asks the ferryman if he could be the new ferryman. He really wanted to be in this river the rest of his life. 

Two Indian Dudes Brought Together

Siddhartha isn't exactly what I'd call a "hero".  Most heros save people and fight evil, but as far as I'm concerned, Siddhartha is just an old man that walks around talking to people and preaching. He doesn't exactly "fight" for what he wants. He just does his best and meanders around peacefully and calmly. And for this reason, I can relate him to Gandhi, the Hindu leader. And before you say that Gandhi isn't a hero either, I would like to remind you that he was the liberator and the role model of millions of people, so I also hold him in the same light as Batman, for example.

Both of them are what I like to call "peaceful warriors". They fight for something without having to actually fight. This, I believe, is even harder than fighting. Because having the power to have thousands of people follow, support and listen to you is greater than having the ability to massacre your opponents in my eyes. They both have quite grand beginnings. Siddhartha was the son of a Brahmin, one of India's richest group, and Mahatma was a world-renowned lawyer who was used to be treated like a god. 

One thing I really admire about both of these individuals is that they have the ability to rid themselves of all their possessions and even go further than that. They regularly fast as well as inflict pain on them selves with the purpose of purifying their souls. To me these are the signs of a pure and well rounded human being. 

The only thing that I can criticize about Siddhartha (and praise Gandhi) is the lack of a mustache. All great men, as far as I'm concerned, have a mustache to show off to the world. Einstein, Martin Luther King jr, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus, and the list goes on. 

Words With Meanings. Sorta.

1. Without possessions: (52)

2. Business (55)

3. People (57)

4. Illustrious (59)

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Excellent (45)

Verse (47)

Require (49)

Rich House (51)

Servant (53)

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Born: (33)

Alone (34)

See (38)

Beautiful (43)

Two Gods Equals One

Throughout the second chapter of Siddhartha, I noticed some blatant similarities to the Bible. First of all, let's talk about some of the obvious ones. Maybe the one that pops out at you the most is how the  author compares Buddha to Jesus. How his "words and breath are sufficient to heal the afflicted..." and how "Many go their way to seek the wise man". This whole thing seems pretty similar to how the King of the Jews travelled around the Middle East curing people and performing miracles, with a horde of followers behind him. And the way that some people talked trash behind both their backs says that whoever wrote Siddhartha clearly was inspired by Sir Jesus of Nazareth.

I was drinking some water while reading, and when I was nearing the end I was chuckling a bit, because of all the similarities. But when I read the last sentence, and the book says "you would have soon learned how to walk on water", some liquid came out of my nose, I'm not going to lie.

Throughout the read (which was very puzzling btw) I couldn't help feeling curious about the Buddha. He seems very cryptic and interesting. When our main character tells Govinda that he didn't want to meet Gotama, I wanted to give him a pat on the back. With a baseball bat.

But Daaaaddd. I wanna Be a Samanaaaaa.

I never thought that a god would be so stubborn as  a teenager. But then again, most younglings have that trait. They love fighting with their parents. It's almost as though they make a sport out of it. "I bet I can get my parents to have a worse migrane than yours!"

I can only begin to fathom the sort of living hell that a parent must live through constantly quarreling with his/her child. The sort of mental torture that they must withstand knowing that their kid is doing the wrong thing but they're way too stubborn to pay attention and do as they say. And the treatment that  Siddhartha gives to his father seems horrible. The way that he just ignores him and manipulates him into letting him join the Samanas. As you can see in page 7, when the book says that he "... stood silent and motionless, sat on the mat, and the stars passed across the sky."
But then again, I do have to give credit where credit´s due. The method that Siddhartha uses to convince his dad is remarkable. He knows that if he fights with him he won't get what he wants because his father is trained to have patience and to remain calm. And he's also aware that good things come to those who wait, he combined the both of both worlds and got what he wanted and "joined the pilgrim"

Even the world famous "Advice Mallard" says that you should always trust your parents.

And who can't trust a duck?

Write Now: Types of Love in Poem

This poem is an expression of love. The whole thing circulates around this woman (Carrie Shippers) worshipping the guy that plays Jesus in the musical. The way that she constantly describes him like a god (or son of a god) is actually suffocating. She talks about his "thinning hair and wrinkled brow" and just keeps on rambling. All this is a clear sign of eros (sexual attraction). This gal has a serious crush on Jesus. And not anyone can say that.
And this girl is also a frequent lover of everything That is, agape. The way that she describes the entire casts and puts them on a pedestal clearly shows that she is a lover of everyone.

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Concisenessnessness

1. The car is ready for the night-long drive.
2. Stan went running with Blanche, a runner for the school.
3.  Talylor brought back some unsual candy from Europe.
4. Government leaders like to mention the creation of new jobs, even if they aren't beneficial to the economy.