Siddhartha went through many changes to become who he is now. As a young boy he was totally involved with god and sacrifices. As a young man he followed the ascetics, lived in the forest, suffered heat and frost, learned to go hungry,& taught his body how to wither. As a youth he was occupied with ascetism, thinking, and meditating. He learned from kamala the pleasures of love, learned buisness from kamaswami, accumulated money, frittered money away, learned to love his stomach,and indulged in senses. He passed thru so much ignorance, vice, great misunderstanding, revulsion and dissapointment and misery. He expirienced despair, had stupid thoughts of suicide to be able to expirience grace, to be awaken properly. Siddhartha says he will never go back, he will now follow the path of enlightenment. This is all important to me because it makes me realize that we all have to go through many things in our life, even bad things, to become mature and the person we want to be.