The Book That Changed Me
Siddhartha, if you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend you do. It might just change your life, too.
When I first picked up Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, I didn’t expect it to change the way I see life. But it did. The story of a man searching for meaning, wandering through different worlds, chasing wisdom, making mistakes, felt like a reflection of my own struggles.
Like Siddhartha, I’ve spent years searching. Searching for happiness, for success, for something to make me feel whole. I thought I’d find it in achievements, in people, in things. But just like him, I kept feeling that something was missing. His journey taught me a lesson I didn’t even realize I needed: peace isn’t something you chase. It’s something you grow into, something that comes when you stop resisting life.
After reading this book, I started seeing things differently. I worry less about the future. I listen more. I try to experience life fully instead of constantly searching for the next thing.
And I don’t have everything figured out, and maybe I never will. But for the first time, that feels okay. Siddhartha didn’t give me answers, it showed me how to ask the right questions. And that changed everything.