Personal Narrative: The Odyssey

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I am the brilliant, illustrious Shadis; I reside in a comfortable forest clearing on the island of Titus. Numerous men flock from each and every town around to gaze at my luxurious charcoal black hair. Men tend to instantly fall in love with yours truly once they take a long solemn stare into my icy indigo blue eyes. Many think that my beauty compares to that of a goddess but I am not as such. In all honestly I am not very fond of all the attention I get from all of the pathetic, deplorable men. I am in search of what may seem rather ridiculous to most; I desire to meet a real man, one whom I could love with all of my heart.
Everything changed that fateful fall day. I was strolling through the woods one afternoon, and spotted the most gorgeous
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Quickly I unconcealed my knife that I had so brilliantly hidden underneath my snow white gown and made a swiftly enormous lunge towards Aphrodite.
“ Now, now! Did you really think you can kill a goddess?” Aphrodite remarked as she kicked me in the stomach hurling by body at a tree.
“ I will most definitely try!” I remarked as my body recover from the previous kick. Aphrodite approached closer looking down upon my black and blue beaten body and spoke.
“For that action alone you shall be cursed to follow behind the all men and women for eternity in the form of what is to be called a shadow! You are to be allowed to rest once the light expires at the end of every day. This will be a reminder of how you only watched from afar. It will also be a reminder to display how failed to speak your mind while you had the chance.”
I now am no longer known as Shadis the black haired beauty; I am called by a different name. A name even more magnificent, one that tends to linger in the darkness. People can see me as a friend in the hours of dawn, daylight, and dusk. I am now what people may call a

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