Life runs on an endless loop, all of time playing out a second at a time while we are living on a single point in that 4.5 billion year timeline. Although all of time can not be seen by a single person, hints of the past, and present can be seen through your dreams of the future, and the past could be remembered through fading memories. Times is always happening, alway ticking wall it has always been, and always will be. In Herman Hesse’s Nobel prize winning novel, Siddhartha, the protagonist speaks of a star, and the leaf, in relation to a river that is always moving yet always there; he later stays and learns from the river in order to eventually become enlightened.
As the stone, the star, and the river are spoken of by the protagonist, as he goes on to describe to another who he believes is like him, and proceeds to state how everyone falls into a category of being either a leaf that drifts in the air, or star which travels …show more content…
Siddhartha had just come from living in an extreme of riches, gambling, and woman. He finds himself at the edge of life and death, making the decision of whether life is still worth living with the all too many sacrifices, and holy verses. He later finds that he did not need to kill his person, but instead his inner self, that was killed through living in the two extremes.“He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same yet every moment it was new.” As Siddhartha had awoken reborn, he immediately started learning from the river. Life keeps going and going much like river does, spanning our throught the future and the past while still being in the present. As sidarth later says that he can love the rock, as it has been everything, as everything else
As the stone, the star, and the river are spoken of by the protagonist, as he goes on to describe to another who he believes is like him, and proceeds to state how everyone falls into a category of being either a leaf that drifts in the air, or star which travels …show more content…
Siddhartha had just come from living in an extreme of riches, gambling, and woman. He finds himself at the edge of life and death, making the decision of whether life is still worth living with the all too many sacrifices, and holy verses. He later finds that he did not need to kill his person, but instead his inner self, that was killed through living in the two extremes.“He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same yet every moment it was new.” As Siddhartha had awoken reborn, he immediately started learning from the river. Life keeps going and going much like river does, spanning our throught the future and the past while still being in the present. As sidarth later says that he can love the rock, as it has been everything, as everything else