Siddhartha Hero's Journey

Throughout Siddhartha’s journey, Siddhartha had to overcome many obstacles and go through many steps of a hero’s journey in order to achieve his ultimate goal of achieving enlightenment. While trying to achieve my goal of earning my driver’s license I will also have to overcome many obstacles. Many of the steps in Siddhartha’s journey that Siddhartha had to deal with and overcome, I too will have to face and overcome them if I want to be able to achieve my goal as Siddhartha did. One of the steps that Siddhartha had to face that I also had to face the refusal to the call. When Govinda was trying to convince Siddhartha to go with him and visit the Buddha and learn from him, Siddhartha said, ‘” … I have become distrustful of teachings and learning and that I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers.”’ (pg. 22) When Siddhartha says this, he is saying that he no longer trusts the words of teachers so he refuses Govinda’s offer to go see the Buddha. I also refused my call to get my permit at the time because I did not want to go to the DMV and wait for several hours just to take my test. However, …show more content…
When Siddhartha leaves the grove he begins to have all these new thoughts and feels different. It says, “… he felt that he had also left his former life behind him in the grove. As he slowly went on his way, his head was full of thought. He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him…” (pg. 37) This shows that as he left the grove he felt as though he was beginning a new life and had all these new and overwhelming thoughts. I crossed the first threshold when I got my permit. When I passed the permit test I got this strange feeling of excitement but also got a feeling of nervousness because I was going to have to do something I had never done before which was drive on the