What would people do to reach true satisfaction or Enlightenment?

People spend their entire life searching for true peace looking for Nirvana. People give up their possessions and life styles to reach this goal, just as Siddhartha did. In my case I would probably not give anything up to reach my nirvana, I strongly believe that a person should be happy with the way they are and should not have to give anything up to reach true enlightenment. Once your able to be happy with the way you are and can accept yourself then you have reached the goal of true enlightenment. In the book Siddhartha falls in love with a goldiging woman and has a child with her. His Kamala dyes later on in the story and his son decides he dos'nt like his dads life style o he leaves, Siddhartha must then be able to let go of his son and come to peace with the idea of his son growing up and choosing his own path in order to truly be happy. This is one of many things that Siddhartha dos to reach his goal.

The other day I went and saw the princess frog a Walt Disney movie in the movie the main character Tiana wants more than anything to be able to open up her own restaurant in the honor of her dad. She is poor black woman in a time were that was a hard goal to achieve but yet she works herself out to save for the restaurant. Tiana miss out on a lot of things girls her age are doing but in her mind she doesn’t care because she believes it will give her true happiness. In the end she finds that it’s true love and care for herself that will give her this sense of peace and freedom. See we all have to search are selves to be able to find what we truly need to be happy and enlightened. Personally I have come to peace wit who I am but I’m not done learning and I don’t plan on giving anything about myself up.