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In college, students tend to change their majors because they do not really know what they want to do with their lives. In Siddhartha, Siddhartha changed his path in life many times. Hermann Hesse says to find meaning, a person needs to follow many paths and make mistakes like Siddhartha did; he made the decision to to go live with the Samanas, to go to the buddha, and to become a businessman, but none of those patches were for him. Siddhartha spent a time of his life with the Samanas to try to reach Nirvana. During his time with the Samanas he only wanted to do one thing, “Siddhartha had one single goal- to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams,pleasure

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