Siddhartha

Completed this during a 3.5 hour flight to Trivandrum. I was literally and metaphorically high!

I originally thought it was about the story of Gotama Budhha himself, but the story is about another man who lived at the same time as the Buddha. It is an interesting journey of this man, where he lives many different experiences and his learnings / insights keep on evolving through the places he travels, emotions he feels, people he meets. I loved it, his thirst to learn and unlearn. I often felt the journey was similar to mine and how my beliefs have evolved and also changed over the course of time.

This one insight is worthy enough to be mentioned: Some people are searching for something, some people are finding something. There's such a gentle and beautiful difference. I would definitely recommend this. Would have given 4.5 stars if I could. I'm definitely re-reading this in the future.

Weirdly I feel like I am behaving and talking like a monk now hahaha, all calm and wise. I've landed now (birthday surfing week!!) But I still feel a little high.