I stumbled across this book by accident, i saw it in a boy's table and decide to start reading it, the first sentences where quite catchy so i continued on my reading. After convincing the boy to lend me the book I discovered that my life was in the same point as Sinclair, I was triying to step out of the dark world that have been this months in Mexico and go back to my world of light that living alone in Europe meant.
The first quote that spoke to me was
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." It all happend on the first day of school when this guy started talking to me and just turned my world upside down, he represented all the things I hate about myself, he was lazy and stubburn just a nightmare for my perfectionist mind but there was something about him that made me like him in a way I have never liked anyone before. Some how i could see beyond his flaws and just accept him.
In the book when Sinclair meets Demian his world just turns upside down, S. starts questioning everything and just wants to become a better person but he is quite intriged by Demian who is this misterius young guy that seems like an angel, they talk about life and how S. can change if he stops hanging out with his friend.
The second quote is "I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me." This talked to me because i consider myself as a seeker I love learning and every aspect that comes with it just the fact of learning and filling myself with this, I like learning with travels and stories that people told me.
"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross." This is for me the most important one, i believe that we are all unique and we don't really understand each other unless we let our hearts open when we feel like; sometimes people will betray us and break our hearts to pieces but that is how we know we have our very best and that we actually learn something.
I loved the book it helped me realize that only I am able to create my world of light and happiness there is no Demian out there searching for me to understand the meaning of life but I can be someone's angel or demon and try to help them sorting their own dissasters out.
