child people 2

"You cannot love," she had said to him, and he had agreed with her, and had likened himself to a star and the child people to falling leaves, and yet he sensesed a rebuke in her words. Indeed, he had never been able to lose himself completely in anyone else, give himself completely to another person, forget himself, commit follies of love for someone else. He had never been able to do these things, and this had struck him as the great gap between him and the child people.

But now that his son was here, now he, Siddhartha, too, had become a child person, suffering for someone else, loving someone else, lost in a love, a fool for love."

This is quite amazing. Its my first time coming across a book that praises the follies of love.

That made me feel better already. x)