A man flings his shovel, takes a deep breath and sinks his knees into the sand. Next, he inserts a rusted key into a gold-plated slot of a deteriorating wooden box. Click. The man wedges his fingers underneath the latch of the chess then begins to raise the lid. A hinge begins to squeak when a ray of golden light reaches the man’s eyes. A pile of riches sits before him. He looks up at the horizon carved by sand dunes and promptly closes and latches the box. The man grunts as he lifts the weighted chest and stumbles to the three-foot-deep hole where it had been uncovered minutes ago. He carefully places the treasure chest in then proceeds to fill in the rest of the hole with the excess sand. After he was finished, he brushes off his hands satisfied with his work, then looks over his shoulder.
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He looks at their jaw dropped expressions for a while. “Wait, but what about the treasure?” asks a young merchant to split the silence. With a crooked smile, the man responds, “That treasure isn’t for me, mine has already been found.” In this instance, the man realizes his journey was far more important than his quest. A quest is a voyage to accomplish a specific task, while a journey is an expedition that focuses on the importance of the trip rather than the destination. The man realizes that what he once sought out to find was no longer significant compared to what he gained throughout the journey, in this case, the friendships he gained along the way. Characters such as Hercules, Odysseus, Sir Lancelot have all experienced similar conclusions. In the Greek myth Hercules, the Greek God Hercules goes on a mission to prove himself worthy of the Gods to join Mt Olympus after becoming stripped of his immortality as a child. In The Odyssey tells the tale of Odysseus's adventure to return to his wife Penelope from the Trojan War. In the comedic
He looks at their jaw dropped expressions for a while. “Wait, but what about the treasure?” asks a young merchant to split the silence. With a crooked smile, the man responds, “That treasure isn’t for me, mine has already been found.” In this instance, the man realizes his journey was far more important than his quest. A quest is a voyage to accomplish a specific task, while a journey is an expedition that focuses on the importance of the trip rather than the destination. The man realizes that what he once sought out to find was no longer significant compared to what he gained throughout the journey, in this case, the friendships he gained along the way. Characters such as Hercules, Odysseus, Sir Lancelot have all experienced similar conclusions. In the Greek myth Hercules, the Greek God Hercules goes on a mission to prove himself worthy of the Gods to join Mt Olympus after becoming stripped of his immortality as a child. In The Odyssey tells the tale of Odysseus's adventure to return to his wife Penelope from the Trojan War. In the comedic