In life you learn many life lessons. Some help you some destroy you. In the poem The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus learns many life lessons on his journey home to Ithica. A couple of the life lessons Odysseus learns and many people today learn deal with first instinct decisions and patience. Although going with your first instinct may seem like the right thing to do, it can also result in trouble, Odysseus and I seem to choose our first instinct mostly with many different decisions. Odysseus likes to take risks and goes with his gut with many of the things he does. One way to prove how he shows using his first instinct is when he uses his last shot to shoot an innocent man, “Odysseus’ arrow hit him under the chin and punched up the feathers through
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For instance one time when Odysseus discovered this was when they were trying to get the cyclops drunk. He says, “three bowls I brought him, and he poured them down. I saw the fuddle and flush come over him” (906). Odysseus sat there handing over this delicious wine to the cyclops trying to get him loopy enough that they could make a small commotion and move around without him realizing it. He had to have a lot of self-restraint waiting for the cyclops to become drunk enough that they could succeed in their little plan. Odysseus also shows that patience will help you succeed when they are hiding under the rams to escape the cyclops cave. They tied themselves to the bottom of the rams that night: “so…[they] waited until morning” (908). At dawn when the rams went out to graze the men went with them, tied to their underside. Laying under the rams had to have taken a lot of tenacity waiting until morning when they could possibly escape the horrifying cyclops cave, if all went well. Similarly I have learned many times that patience will help you succeed. Like when I am trying to train my fair calves I have to have a great deal of patience to get them to where I want them to be. Sometimes if they get riled up, I have to wait for them to calm down enough that I can approach them without getting injured. Another time I have to show a great deal of patience is when i'm handling my horse. She can be really stubborn at times and if I yell or freak out it's basically just fuel to her stubbornness. She is also way bigger than me and has found a sly way to get the bit to the front of her mouth. So, if I don't have patience, and she senses my anger, she thinks she's unstoppable. Odysseus and I have both learned that patience will help you succeed through our own experiences and have realised that it truly does. In conclusion many life lessons are good and bad. Odysseus and people today
For instance one time when Odysseus discovered this was when they were trying to get the cyclops drunk. He says, “three bowls I brought him, and he poured them down. I saw the fuddle and flush come over him” (906). Odysseus sat there handing over this delicious wine to the cyclops trying to get him loopy enough that they could make a small commotion and move around without him realizing it. He had to have a lot of self-restraint waiting for the cyclops to become drunk enough that they could succeed in their little plan. Odysseus also shows that patience will help you succeed when they are hiding under the rams to escape the cyclops cave. They tied themselves to the bottom of the rams that night: “so…[they] waited until morning” (908). At dawn when the rams went out to graze the men went with them, tied to their underside. Laying under the rams had to have taken a lot of tenacity waiting until morning when they could possibly escape the horrifying cyclops cave, if all went well. Similarly I have learned many times that patience will help you succeed. Like when I am trying to train my fair calves I have to have a great deal of patience to get them to where I want them to be. Sometimes if they get riled up, I have to wait for them to calm down enough that I can approach them without getting injured. Another time I have to show a great deal of patience is when i'm handling my horse. She can be really stubborn at times and if I yell or freak out it's basically just fuel to her stubbornness. She is also way bigger than me and has found a sly way to get the bit to the front of her mouth. So, if I don't have patience, and she senses my anger, she thinks she's unstoppable. Odysseus and I have both learned that patience will help you succeed through our own experiences and have realised that it truly does. In conclusion many life lessons are good and bad. Odysseus and people today