Path To Our Own Paradises In Homer's Odyssey

Path to Our Own Paradises We all are on some sort of journey. Some of us are on shorter ones, and some of us are working towards a longer journey. For example, people work toward goals, like in school, or work. Whether it’s to get good grades, or get a pay raise, or to make more friends, it’s generally a short-term goal. Furthermore, longer goals are usually for the future, or for something that’ll take longer time than a shorter goal would. As an example, ancient Greek myths that involve journeys, like the Odyssey and the Iliad, generally take a very long time to reach their end goal. In the beginning, we are introduced to characters, like Odysseus, who is on a trip to his Ithaca, or in simpler terms, his paradise to reach. In these trips,
Depending on where we come from, or how we were raised, or our experiences, it usually leads an impact on how we want to change the world to make it better. For example, in the Odyssey, Odysseus discovers new territories, where things he’s never experienced, surprise him, such as the Land of the Cyclopes. He ends up being curious, and because of how his world is, he does not understand why the Cyclopes eats his men. It is later discovered that to the Cyclopes, Polyphemus, he had invaded his home, and he saw it as a threat to himself. Hence, why he saw it as okay to eat his men, plus it was just a way of how they survived. But, in Odysseus’ eyes, he wanted to change the Cyclopes, as he never appreciated his men being eaten. For myself, I see a huge problem in our society today. There are countless cases of people feeling worthless, or useless, than we’d like to admit. That is a huge deal to me, as I was once one of those people, and I truly want to change that as much as I can. So, by aspiring to be a counseling psychologist, it definitely brings myself closer to helping out in that effort, as well as making more people happier. It may be a small area that I affect, but nonetheless, it will all add up
Everyone has different views on certain things, but the generalized ideas we have today are something I want to make an effort to change. For example, in schools, cyberbullying isn’t really helped out as much as it would be if there was actual bullying in real life. But, due to cell phones existing in our world today, cyberbullying is way more common. Society also tends to have a habit of putting those down who are calling out for help, thus reinstating the point of many people being depressed in our society today. In the Odyssey, the world was entirely different then. It was ancient Greek times, where people walked around half-nude, and where people were advancing skills into the arts and had just invented the Olympic games. But, personally, from human nature, I believe there were certainly things that Odysseus himself would’ve wanted to change. For example, when he had finally returned to Ithaca, he had to challenge all of his wife’s suitors in order to get her back. While he accomplished that goal, it’s most likely that he had wished that the situation never escalated to go to those lengths. Therefore, his want to change the world carries on to our present