Siddhartha

We started by reading about Siddhartha being born already walking. He is born into a pleasure palace and lives their for the early part of his life. In class we discussed what it would be like to live in a pleasure palace. Personally I wouldn't like it because that would mean I wouldn't know anything but pleasure. When Siddhartha left the palace he started to see what real life was like. I don't think he over reacted to what he was seeing, sick people, death, elderly people. This is something he had never seen before and he wanted to try and make all of these terrible things go away.