Sid. Section One

     "He had begun to feel that the love of his father and mother and also the love of his friend Govinda, would not always make him happy, give him peace, satisfy him." This quote from the book seems to describe Siddhartha's personality quite well from what we have read so far. I say this because he seems not to be happy with anything in life. As the quote states Siddhartha began to feel like he wouldn't be satisfied with the love of any of the people who were the closest to him so he leaves home. After he leaves home to be with the Sadamans he still did no find satisfaction there so he moved on and went to listen to the teachings of the Buddha. After listening to the teachings of the Buddha Siddhartha still was not satisfied. And I really think that is how he is going to spend a large portion of this book, just seeking happiness but never really finding it. I think that most people can relate to this search as well. Everyone wants to find the thing that will make them the most happy in life for example having a great job, making loads of cash, having a family, playing a professional sport, owning the best things and the list goes on and on. Everyone just wants to get a hold of this thing called happiness. I think this quest for happiness is never ending because happiness is a very temporary emotional state. For example, Christmas morning you wake up earlyand wake up everyone else in the house so that you can open up your presents. Once everyone is awake you shred that paper and there is that remote controll car you have been asking for since summer time! For the next couple days all you do is play with that remote controll car and it just makes you the happiest person ever and then as the days go on playing with the car seems to be not as fun. Then the feeling happiness fades and it may come back if you wait a couple months then play with the car again but its never the same. This is really how it is for everyone maybe its ntoa  remote controll car but you just plug whatever it is you think will make you happy into the remote controll car.