Tick Tock Tick Tock
According to Merriam-Webster, time is a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future. With this definition in mind, I'm going to question the depiction of time in Siddhartha . Throughout his journey of searching for nirvana, or enlightenment/inner peace, Siddhartha was only thinking and acting with egocentrism. He continuously expressed that others around him - ordinary, somewhat problematic people - were "childlike." He viewed them as inferior, preventing him from regarding them as a whole - the key information of time. Like the definition of time, Siddhartha viewed everything in fragments of a whole - there were fragments to everything. However, he eventually learned that time, in fact, doesn't exist. It's an illusion, an obstacle that prevents an individual from reaching their lifelong goal, which in this case, is enlightenment. If this is true, why do we have memories? Why do we const...