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Siddhartha has changed a lot and achieved the enlightenment after he decided to be one of the Sananas, his determination means he has to go through fasting to cleanse his soul. Then I know I am supposed to do something to acquire the mystery of life just like Siddhartha. Therefore I chose to give up speaking mandarin, which is an instinctive action in my daily life. It is interesting that I would like to think for a while when I open my mouth, and I do not know why I feel a little bit guilty when I am speaking mandarin at present, perhaps this is the “sequelae” after my own fast. However, it becomes easier to understand Samanas’s tough time and the reason why they are persisting in ascetic practices and I learned that suffering really is a …show more content…

At the beginning, it is not very easy to give up speaking mandarin, mandarin is my first language and I am used to chatting with others in this way, but this is a proper time to resort to coercive measures to change and get prepared before I getting into universities. In my first try, it looks like someone was holding my neck and I almost cannot breathe when I tried to speak English for every sentence, I have so many things want to tell, but it took me so much time to think on my mind first and I can only speak English intermittently. Then the most awkward thing is I needed to explain the reason why I speak another language instead of my mother tongue to everyone who talked to me, I can find that they took pleasure in my misfortune as well. After the first few days I cannot imagine how can Siddhartha persist in whatever how hard the things he …show more content…

In Siddhartha’s face he saw no trembling, his eyes were fixed on a distant spot. Then his father realized that even now Siddhartha no longer dwelt with him in his home, that he had already left him” ( Hesse 1). Because of tasting the relish of success, I believed everything will get better. With my experience, it is meaning that not only keep working on giving up speaking mandarin myself, but also put few of my friends in the same motion. At that time, I can chat or discuss something in English frequently, which is good to my learning skills and

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