Prince Siddhartha lived in a golden palace where everything was beautiful and everyone was good, healthy and happy. When he decided to go outside and see the other world (= the "real" world), he had his life shattered. He found that most things were ugly, that most people were bad, sick, unhappy. His idealistic realm had only been a temporary dream and the impact with reality turned him into a different (= enlightened) person. As almost no-one has the heroic spirituality of Prince Siddhartha, when a normal human being is compelled to see that the people he believed to be in a certain way are actually the opposite, he may also change. However, it is a totally different kind of change. If he (or she), for example, had believed everybody to be trustworthy (or a holder of any other "virtue"), facing a world of dishonesty and carelessness may turn him into a cynical, suspicious individual. What to do? Is it preferable to keep on living in a idealistic world that is only an illusion, or is it indispensable to wake up from the dream and face the ugly truth?
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