Coming Out: The Truth

Coming out is not painful, staying in is painful. Coming out is loose

     

        Satisfied, is what precisely I'm feeling now, that Michael himself has finally decided to make his way out to all those barriers that had hindered him. How he wasn't ashamed and was able to admit to his mother how gay he had been. How he assured her that there wasn't a single reason why he had become one. It's a matter of how being gay has always been in him. This just states that confidence has indeed consumed Michael, beautifully.

        I'm genuinely stunned on the thought of how Michael deals with such revelation, how bold he could be to face such hate and discrimination. How keeping for who he was, is the first choice he made. Even bother to find a place where everyone is accepted. Has it always been this? Hiding? Was this the only room where they could feel safe?

Questions were filled, people desire to know how one's revelation is such a huge deal to a certain gay. Where coming out, takes a lot of time. Where admitting, can be risky. Is this what Michael's been feeling? The feeling of terrified?

        It may take him a while to confess what he's been covering yet everyone can agree on this that he still manages to reveal for who he was that should have been done way back then. How he prefers to do it with a letter, where he stated that things have been good to him. Glad he finally found a place where each has open arms to accept him. A place where people like gays could freely talk, mingle nor just be with someone they desire. Acceptance is what Michael has felt and that's a huge sigh of relief right there.

        Individuals who are part of LGBT do knows the struggle of having a normal life in which what every couple should have. One thing is people who are part of the community, having a gay marriage and adoption. Every single person has its perspective on whether to agree or not to them doing nor having it. How some still consider it a huge deal and even still stand on a man and woman marriage. How gay parents can be more responsible in taking care of a certain child. Where genuine love will be given. I, personally don't blame them for it yet these kind of individuals should wake their self up that the world itself is indeed evolving. That they should take there homophobic self to a place where it should be belong. One big surprise is that gay people intentionally avoid holding hands in public. How a simple expression of love and belonging is abandoned to save hassle and dodge confrontation. This just simply makes there relationship invisible for everyone to see.

        Despising, wouldn't lead you to good nor make you feel prime as you wanted it to be. Want to help? How about you bother to slowly accept for who they wanted to. That isn't that hard, is it? The problem is discrimination, prejudices, and ignorance has taken place. When people are distraught, that’s when they start discriminating and competing between themselves. You may be thinkin, dealing with all of these is just that simple. Yet imagine if you were in their part, can you live with all of that?

        No matter how we turned things, there will always be that kind of individuals out there. Gay, bi, lesbian and trans. How against you are to it, they will still live and will always be.

ESSENCE OF FAMILY DAY IN MY TEENAGE LIFE

      Family Day, where certain families get together, where bonding could be memorable, where the feeling of being loved and secured will be felt. Having interaction with one's family members could lead to a prominent impact on being more intimate with each other. This kind of idea rarely only happens as parents tend to be occupied in their particular business. How communicating nor bonding isn't their first preference. Now, imagine what would the child felt, how one's parents can't even take time to connect not even a single day. It must be pretty tough for the part of every only child out there and how I feel pity for them.

      I, myself, is utterly grateful for how I never encountered such a thing. Though, I admit we don't usually do Sunday bonding as each one of us has certain businesses to make with. But that doesn't stop us right there but rather, we would be together on our dinner nights, to be exact. Have some random talks as we laughed, shared and all that kind of stuff. Funny, how I wholly find this little gathering cute in some way. Grateful is what I'm precisely feeling right now, how my parents nor siblings still bothered to take time to gather and chat.

We look silly

        Having such a gathering to families may strengthen family bonds, develops positive behaviors to children who probably less likely to get involved in risky doings, may also encourage communication, this could lead to the children to be more open and can make your child comfortable in talking nor sharing certain topics to anyone.


HIGHLIGHTS

FAM

LMAO

       Last January 26, 2020, Family Day was held on, where parents nor families gathered around. Where you can see and tell the various kinds of feelings in their each faces. How bored yet thrilled they could be. It usually happened that way, family days don't truly give me the feeling of excitement as I know for a fact it's just all about dances, games and such. And the point that my parents aren't interested nor genuinely into it, they don't have to utter a single word as the look in their faces is enough. Speaking of dances, I am indeed glad that our batch did win four times in four years, I can't even believe that we did that. Imagine what we're feeling in those times, the satisfaction in our faces can't be even explained. Per year, we won first place, can you imagine that?

       Everyone can completely agree to this, that the raffle part was the most memorable time of the night as students are moved to know who's name is gonna be called next. How rough they could be as their names aren't mentioned. How mostly grade 10 students were the ones who were waiting for the name to be announced and badly wants the prize to be theirs. This kind of times is what I will genuinely miss the most how we just casually enjoying the night, how for a second right there we just forget the burden that we're holding. That will be the last, and I will surely miss it.

CAT Camping 2020: Survived

      Noong nakaraang Enero 11, 2020. Ang mga grade 10 na mag-aaral ay nagkaroon ng isang CAT Camping kung saan mayroong limang platoon na sinubok ang kanilang kaalaman sa kung papaanong mamuhay ng mahirap. Ng walang mga kalan, phones o ni foam sa pagtulog. Sa araw na iyon sinubok ang bawat isa kung makakaya ba namin ang bawat hapon na ang aming mahaharap. At laking gulat o masayang kong sabihin na bawat platoon ay nagtagumpay sa dalawang araw na pagdurusa.

      Hinay-hinay nang dumating ang aking mga kapwa kong kaklase dalang-dala ang mga kanilang pinagsabihan na dalhin kagaya ng kawali, kaldero, spatula at mga pagkain, pagkain na de-latang kalakal. Mga personal nga gamitan din katulad ng unan, kumot at banig, bakit banig? sapagkat ano na ang kahulugan ng "survival" kung gagamit lang pala kami ng foam. Umagang-umaga palang malalaman mo na gaano nasasabik yet nag-aalala ang lahat, sa mga mukha palang namin malalaman mo na. Sapagkat wala kaming kaalam-alam kung anong naghihintay sa amin kapag kami na ay papasok sa loob ng campus. Kung makakaya ba naming na walang mga phones sa dalawang araw, walang kalan na magagamitan, na matitiis ba naming maging pawis buong araw at walang kaartehan sa mga nakakasuklam na gawain. Ito lang ay isa sa mga katanungan ng bawat isipan na sumali sa camping.

      Pinapasok na ang bawat platoon, isinuko na ang bawat phones na dala at dito ay inilagay naming (bravo) ang aming mga gamit sa ilang lugar. Hinay-hinay nang tinawag ang mga platoon na kompleto ng mga miyembro at ang bravo ay ang ikaapat na tinawag sapagkat mayroon kaming miyembro na siya nga ang pinakamalapit na bahay siya pa ang huling nakarating sa paaralan. Sapagkat inakala niya ng 7+ pa magsisimula ang camping. Siya ay pinuntahan sa kanilang bahay at laking gulat naming nalaman nga siya lang ay nanunuod pa ng telebisyon at nakasuot pa ng sanina nga pang-bahay. Natutuwa lang isipin nga umagang-umaga palang kaming bravo ay galit-galit sa kanya.

Lahat ay pinapasok na

       Lahat ay nagtipon sa lobby, dito ay nagkaroon ng talakayan sa aming punong-guro sa kung ano ang kahulungan ng C.A.M.P.. Kung papaano magCommunicate openly, ito ay isa mga bagay na dapat tandaan ng bawat indibidwal sapagkat papaano magtatagumpay ang isang grupo kung hindi niyo inilalahad kung anong gustong sabihin. Achieving your goals, mas mabuti sa isang grupo na magset ones goal sapagkat ito lang ang nagpapatuloy sa inyo sa mga hamon na paparating at kahit na nabigo sa una, lalaban parin. Lahat na ito ay walang silbi kung hindi natin icherish ang mga Moments na nangyayari, ito ang mga bagay na ating matatandaan kung anong mga kalokohan nga ginawa, mga wala sa sarili moments at mga masasarap nga mga kwentuhan. At ang panghuli ay ang Paying attention, papaano mo malalaman o maiintindihan ang isang bagay na nasa harap mo kung ikaw mismo ay hindi nakikinig kung ano lang ang pinagsasabi.

      Sa tanghalian, bawat  platoon ay kinakailangan ng magluto gamit ng mga kahoy at posporo na dinala namin. Nasa isipan ko makakaya ba namin ito mapailaw? makakain ba kami? kung oo, gaano naman ka tagal?. Laking gulat, na nakakain kaming lahat na platoon. Lahat ay gutom na gutom ngunit may twist na binigay sa amin, kami ay pinagsabihan na palitan ang aming pagkain sa ibang platoon. Dito makikita mo ang mga reaksyon ng bawat isa gaano ka gulat na gulat sila sa pangyayari, na ang kanilang pinagsikapan at masasarap ng mga pagkain ay napunta lamang sa iba. Mga pagsisi at nabigla ang makikita mo sa oras na iyon.

Pagluluto ng tanghalian

      Sa hapon naman ay nagkaroon ng isang games na familiar sa bawat isa sa amin, parang itong 'The Amazing Race'. Ang pinakagusto ko sa lahat na ginawa namin sa hapon na iyon ang larong kukunin namin ang karot sa isang balde gamit lamang ang aming bibig. Lahat sa nakaranas nito ay sumasang-ayon sa ideya nga ito ang pinakanakakadiri na gawain. Nga inilubog namin ang aming mga mukha at bibig sa isang balde na hindi pinapalitan ng tubig at puno ng mga laway ng bawat nakasali. Umabot na ang gabi, gaya nung tanghalian kami ay nagluto para sa aming hapunana at masayang isipin na wala ng twist o ano man yan kami ay nagenjoy na sa aming mga niluto.

Di na ako babalik diyan

      Sumigaw ang aming commander ng platoon humanay, dito gumising ang lahat at nagluto sa aming almusal ngunit may catch dapat kami maging tahimik sa pagluluto o paghahanda. Pagkatapos nito ay naglinis ang bawat platoon sa bawat lugar na pinagsibihan sila na linisin. Kami ay nasa court area kung saan natatagalan ang paglinis sapagkat buong court ang aming nilinis.

     Awarding ceremony, kung saan nagkaroon ng iba't-ibang award ang bawat platoon, miyembro at iba pa. Ako ay natuwa at nakuntento sa aming resulta (bravo) na nasa ikaapat na place. Kahit ito ay nasa mababang ranggo, masaya parin ako sapagkat hindi kompetisyon ang pinuntahan ko kundi ang kasiyahan at kalokohan na ang aming mararanas sa camping.

!BRAVOO!

      Natutunan ko? na hindi ibig sabihin na kung ikaw ang lider, ikaw na ang magdedesisyon sa lahat. Bawat isa sa isang grupo o mapa platoon man ay may karapatan na ilahad ang kanilang gustong sabihin. Na ang relasyon ng bawat isa sa grupo ay napakahalaga, nasa kung papaano mo lang ito gawin memorable. Sa dalawang araw na iyon nalaman ko nga marami kang kalokohan magagawa nga walang social media kahit sa maikling oras lamang yan at napagtantonan ko nga magiging ibang tao ka.

                                         FATAL DISEASES, WHAT IS IT TO YOU?


          It's been said that teens have been wild in terms of the idea of having sex. How individuals consider this kind of act utterly pleasing no matter what unpleasant outcomes there could possibly be. Curiosity and temptation, on the other hand, may tend to have a prominent function in dealing with pleasure as being a teenager usually takes a tough time to manage such a thing. Now, this is where teenage pregnancy, organ diseases and such takes place.

          There are various reproductive concerns out there both men and women. And that may include infertility, lack of testosterone or may known as hypogonadism, Endometriosis, Uterine Fibroids, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and such. What mostly occurs on certain individuals is having this disease named HIV/AIDS, how potentially life-threatening is it that could indeed damage one's immune system. How it interferes with one's body's ability to fight the organisms that cause disease. Yet this kind of virus usually happens when having sexual intercourse that may be in oral, vaginal nor anal with someone positive in HIV or having numerous partners to please with. That may also include the sharing of needles when injecting intravenous drugs, from blood transfusions, during pregnancy or delivery nor through breastfeeding. An infected individual would likely develop a flu-like illness within a month or two after the virus penetrates the body, which may be known as primary HIV infection. Possible signs could be having headaches, fever, rash, muscle aches, and joint pains, sore throats, swollen lymph nodes and such. These symptoms can be so mild that you might not even notice them yet this is the stage where the infection would likely spread more quickly than the next stage as the bloodstream is quite high at this rate.

           The country Philippines has been proven how Filipinos lack knowledge in dealing with HIV/AIDS. How Individuals lack awareness nor education about it. How it's considered as one of the reasons why it's slowly growing. Fellow Filipinos out there would utterly agree to the idea of how people's minds work, how shameful individuals could be in terms of revealing having such disease as that could lead to insults that are most prone in this country. How helping one's infected may be interpreted as shameful and be discriminated against. People, don't usually open up about the topic of sex as how the minds of the citizens within the country works.

           Dealing with solutions could have tons of it that may include providing individuals knowledge on how things must be nor what should be the possible outcomes on that certain actions that they've been doing. Probably the best yet suitable solution for this problem would be having a sex education for those certain individuals who haven't been exposed to that field. Spreading knowledge and awareness to be exact. How implementing it to those in the right age and mind must be open-minded about it as it provides precise knowledge. Filipinos, on the other hand, also need to consider that if someone having this disease nor has been infected shouldn't feel shameful about it as we simply tend to tell things that are way off our limits.

Bakit Nanghuhusga Ang Mga Tao Sa Kapwa

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           Bawat isa sa atin ay may iba't- ibang kalagayan at kaanyuan sa buhay ngunit sa paningin sa Itaas ay pantay-pantay lang tayong lahat. Mayaman man o mahirap wala parin tayong karapatan na manghusga sapagkat may sarili-sarili tayong buhay. Karamihan sa atin ay nanghuhusga ayon lamang sa kanilang nakita. Nanghuhusga agad na hindi inaalam ang buong katotohanan. Kaya bago manghusga tignan muna ang sarili bago manlait ng iba.

            Batay sa aking nakita, karamihan sa atin ay pumipili na humusga ng una sapagkat ayaw nila mapangunahan at ito ang madalas na ginagawa. Hangga't may taong humihila pababa sayo nanghuhusga ka nalang rin sa kanila. Kahit alam mong mali ang ginagawa ng isang tao ay tama ka na, minsan katulad katulad ka lang din nila ang kaibahan lamang ay nagmamarunong ka. Hindi natin maiiwasan na masyado na tayong naniniwala sa gusto nating paniniwalaan kahit pwede naman muna magtanong bago humusga o wag nalang pansinin kung wala namang kilalaman nito. Bawat isa sa atin ay may kanya-kanyang pagkakamali at tinuturing di perpekto, kaya mas mabuti siguro na iwasan ang pagiging pala husga sa kapwa at bigyan sana ito ng respeto o importansya.

            Nasa katotohanan na, na hindi mawawala ang maga taong mapanghusga sapagkat tandaan nalang natin na tayo parin ang tunay na nakikilala sa ating mga sarili. Bago tayo tumingin sa kahinaan ng bawat isa at mamuna mas mabuti tignan muna natin ang ating sariling kahinaan. Hindi maiiwasan na tayong nagiging abala sa pamimintas ng iba na umaabot sa punto na nakakalimutan natin na meron din tayong kapintasan.

       Wrestling Oneself

        As much as people aim for a more competent image, overthinking comes in place as it becomes one of its mindset to do so. Indeed, it's pretty much normal to do such thing yet its just the matter of how to deal with it. From the word itself, 'big picture' defines as the complete perspective of an issue nor a situation. By just reading the quote, it implies that one should think of the future or consider of other parallel factors and not just to converge on the small details in which I personally utterly agree.

       Wrestling with the big picture has various ways to deal with, one, could also be having insecurities, indeed, it's one of the contrary things to act upon. It leads us to keep on running and hiding which will be filled with regrets, with everything we've missed. People can see you. People are watching people. People will laugh at you, so what? staying sheltered inside your room is far less frightening than exposing your naked soul for all the world to judge. You, need to move beyond the doubts, insecurities, fear and push forward towards the version of yourself that can stand strong in the face of the challenges and barriers. Hence, have you ever considered looking for the path of a better image without any fuss? I can utterly understand that oneself finds it laborious to deal with such thing as in fact, it isn't that simple to overcome. Yet it's a matter of knowing, finding and being prudent could possibly take in place.

       It just simply says that it can also be used to remind people not to fret over small problems in which questions such as "what if's" comes in place, I personally have been dealing with it more specifically recently. Yet a simple thing that I'll take, decisions that I make could lead to various of ways likewise, overthinking. Engrossing myself in just one simple situation could take time to deal with and it has been a thing. When doubting, I slowly keep on analyzing nor asking myself to those acts that I've made. When not contented, I keep on seeking to look for a better image to at least lessen the worries on why things did happen, in which having anxiety highly takes place. 

       By just reading the quotes it interprets to remind others to not reflect that much of the bigger picture as you overthink of it, to try and make decisions that help the situation apparent not complex. In my view, the quote deals with overthinking, it mainly focuses on it. " Wrestle with the big picture", usually occur to individuals that trying to look for more better image yet indeed leads them to hurt their one's head.

      "Best things come when it's unexpected". It's better this way as people tend to gain when you have stopped striving toward a goal, and will no longer conceive about something that you put great effort into attempting to achieve previously. If you don't expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be and unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you. This certain quote speaks that gripping into one's image will surely lead to such unfavorable decisions. Thus, why not try to let things roll on its own way besides that could be a great thing to start with. Though, it may not be related to the quote that much yet it just reminds me of it.

                   

        In life, you don't need to know the big picture, you simply just need to know what you're going to do next. We're only able to think 'big picture' to perceive better where the day to day life yet it seems like a problem you're never going to solve, not yet, as it takes up more space in ourselves. Self-talk could take place as it regulates you on what's going in and out of yourself yet you can step back from all of the noise and see the bigger picture. Stuck thoughts, on the other hand, speaks on the brick walls that form a prison around your mind. The harder you try to get rid of them, the more dominant they become and that usually happens. When having an intrusive thought first to do is to respond with logic, thinking that you quiet down the voice yet you empowers it. You allow it to debate with you and make its case. Thus, why bother to seek for more? when you can just be contented besides that isn't fatal at all. 

                  

                     INCIDENTS IN MYTHOLOGY

                                            Judgment of Paris

                     

       The story begins at the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis to which all the deities of the Greek pantheon were invited to the wedding festivities; that was all deities apart from Eris, the goddess of discord. Angered by the slight, Eris decided to turn up at the celebrations anyway; and she brought a gift, a golden apple. This was an apple of disharmony, and upon it was written the words “to the fairest.” Eris threw the apple amongst the wedding guests and waited for the arguments to start.

Three goddesses laid claim to the golden apple; each believing that they were the “fairest,” or most appealing of the assembled guests. These three claimants were Hera, the wife of Zeus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Athena, the goddess of wisdom. 

       
       Zeus was asked to mediate and he commanded Hermes to lead the three goddesses to Paris of Troy to decide the issue. The three goddesses, despite having profound natural beauty, were not content to allow Paris to make a decision based on looks alone. Each offering him gifts for a favor, Hera would promise him untold wealth and position in charge of all the realms of the ancient world. Athena would offer to all known skill and knowledge, allowing to become the greatest warrior and most knowledgeable mortal. Aphrodite though offered Paris the hand in marriage of the most beautiful of all mortal women. He made his decision and chose Aphrodite, swayed by her promise to bestow upon him Helen, the most beautiful woman, for a wife. Regardless of the fact that Helen was already married to Menelaus. The subsequent abduction of Helene led directly to the Trojan War and the fall of the city.

       There's no doubt that "The Judgment of Paris" is particularly concerned with beauty. The astonishing thing is, the story doesn't celebrate beauty as a, particularly great thing. Throughout the story, it's a source of major conflict. No wonder Eris herself, chose to write for the fairest on the apple. She certainly knows how issues of beauty can push people's buttons. Whether it's the bickering of the three goddesses or the bloody Trojan War, which is started by Paris's obsession with lovely Helen, this story seems to show us that sometimes beauty can cause major problems.

        Indeed, men desire to love more than wisdom or power Perhaps if we extend the meaning of the word "judgment" to include earning the fate you deserve. Troy was destroyed as a result of Paris's choice. After all, he had been fated to destroy his country. Having your country destroyed, your father and brother killed, over your choice to steal another man's wife could be seen as a form of judgment.

        Hence, all choices come with consequences. All choices need to be deeply thought through, and one must also think about the consequence that might come with. Perhaps, from small decisions come earth-shattering results.

                                                Chryseis

        Nearly ten years into the siege of Troy by the Greek forces, led by Agamemnon, Kind of Mycenae. The Greek Achaean army sacks Chryse, a town allied with Troy. During one of the Achaian army's many raids on the cities located near Troy, the Achaeans captured two beautiful enemy maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. The troops awarded these girls to Agamemnon, the commander-in-chief of the army, and Achilles, the Achaeans' greatest warrior. Chryseis's father, Chryses, who serves as a priest of the god Apollo, offers an enormous ransom in return for his daughter, but Agamemnon refuses to give Chryseis back. Chryses then prays to Apollo, who sends a plague upon the Achaean camp.

        After many Achaeans die, Agamemnon consults the prophet Calchas to determine the cause of the plague. When he learns that Chryseis is the cause, he reluctantly gives her up but then demands Briseis from Achilles as compensation. This demand is very crucial to the story as it creates a key conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon which has a significant consequence for the Greeks in the Trojan War as it results in Achilles withdrawal from battle. He vengefully yearns to see the Achaeans destroyed and asks his mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, to enlist the services of Zeus, king of the gods, toward this end. The Trojan and Achaean sides have declared a cease-fire with each other, but now the Trojans breach the treaty and Zeus comes to their aid.

        Pride and honor were introduced in both Agamemnon and Achilles believe that their honor is compromised in the decisions involving the female captives, Chryseis and Briseis. Perhaps that pride and honor do involve public perception as relevant principles. Agamemnon himself assumes that by demanding that Chryseis must be returned to Chryses, challenged his leadership and impugned his honor. Likewise, Achilles seems that replacing Briseis to Chryseis is an affront to his honor and a public show of disrespect. Individual senses of pride and honor here blind the two warriors to the greater good. 

        Their overweening pride requires them to react in foolish ways, Agamemnon in taking Achilles' captive Briseis and Achilles in withdrawing himself and his troops from battle. Homer once again shows that a noble human trait can be subverted by emotion into pettiness and irrationality.

        Men themselves are depicted as in charge and higher up on the social ladder than women. Women are viewed as either objects or as manipulative beings set on ruining a man's purpose. Briseis and Chryseis also become objects to be gifted as war prizes or traded among the men. 

        Both Briseis and Chryseis, and even Helen to an extent, are discussed as prizes, not people. This type of discussion shows women as lacking the same rights as men in this culture. Women were taught to obey men, who held power over them even to the point of being able to trade them like cattle.

                                    Odysseus and Polyphemus

        The island of the Cyclopes - the one-eyed giants - who lived peacefully tending their sheep. As luck would have it, though, Odysseus bumped into the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. The giant took a fancy to the traveling Greeks and trapped them in his cave, swiftly eating two as an appetizer. Seeing the gravity of the situation, Odysseus immediately forged a cunning plan of escape. Tempting Polyphemos with wine until the cyclops was drunk, the hero ordered his men to turn Polyphemos’ olive-wood staff into a spike, this they then hardened in a fire and used to blind the Cyclops while he slept. Unable to see and understandably livid at his treatment, 

         Polyphemos tried to catch the traveling Greeks by feeling his sheep as they left the cave for their grazing. Odysseus then instructed his men to tie themselves to the bellies of the sheep whilst he chose a ram for the purpose, and thus they escaped to continue their voyage. Odysseus boasted to Polyphemus by revealing his name. However, the Cyclops cursed Odysseus, predicting the loss of his men, a wearisome voyage home, and disaster when he finally arrived there. Calling on the help of his father Poseidon, Polyphemos ensured that it would be many a storm and ten long years before Odysseus reached Ithaca.

        Odysseus is quite full of himself for having tricked the Cyclops Polyphemus. Perhaps, is so pumped-up full of pride, enamored of his cleverness and cunning that he can't resist taunting the stricken Cyclops as his ship leaves the island. By revealing his identity and boasting about his exploits.

        The revelation of his identity to Polyphemus ultimately proves foolish, and, because it embodies a lack of foresight, stands in abrupt contrast to the cunning prudence that Odysseus displays in his plan to escape from the cave. 

        It is said that self-control is a vital commodity for dealing with change. A lesson that we are still learning today. Like Odysseus, we have a habit of becoming too fond of ourselves. Boosted by pride and ego, we allow ourselves to believe that we are the rulers of our domain, if not masters of the  universe.

       Through that, we suffer Odysseus’ fate. We overplay our hand. When our house of cards comes tumbling down, we fall with it. We lie in the ruins of our dreams, wondering how we could have ever believed in ourselves.

        Life itself takes you by surprise, you need more than just focus and nerve to stay in control. Perhaps, oneself requires equanimity, tranquil acceptance of fate. To ensure that we are capable of maintaining it under conditions of uncertainty and risk, we must be ready to relinquish control and accept that.

        Recognizing that life itself is out of your hands. This is how we cultivate genuine self-control. Self-control deals with focus, drive, and humility. To get it right, you need to rein in the desire to be in charge of the life. You must temper your pride with reason. You must be the master of your own house.

 The Theogony

       Kronos and his wife, Rhea, ascended to the throne as king and queen of the gods. Had six children: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. There was a prophecy that one of Kronos’ children would overthrow him as he had his own father, and in order to prevent this, Kronos ate each of his children as they were born. Rhea, upset and horrified by Kronos’ actions, prevented him from eating her youngest child, Zeus, by giving Kronos a rock disguised as a baby in his place. In order to avoid being found by Kronos, Zeus was hidden on Mount Ida.

       Once Zeus had matured and grown strong enough, he embarked to avenge his siblings and defeat Kronos. Disguising himself, Zeus forced Kronos into throwing up his siblings by giving him a poisoned drink. Alongside his siblings, the Cyclopes, and the Titans Prometheus and Epimetheus, Zeus fought against Kronos and his allies: the Giants. After a ten-year battle, Kronos was defeated, and Zeus and Hera ascended to the throne as the new and final rulers of the gods.

      Ancient Greece focuses more on being the supreme as an individual, a state, or as a country. It concerns on lavishing in power, wealth, and religious procession. Considering that the nature of the divine toward the gods portrayed the weakness of man greed, aggression, and the need to rule.

     Letting yourself make the right thing yet it may lead to very serious consequences, such as in the case of Prometheus. Don't let the power nor pride to overshadow what is truly important, such as in the cases of Uranus and Cronos. 

     Turns out that the Greeks relate to their world through fighting for power which leads to chaos. Throughout history, they fought among one another and it led toward destruction between families, government, and even their own country. 

     In conclusion, the Greeks' way of life was surrounded by politics and violence, yet they still practiced religious duties. Their daily routines are portrayed in their stories and especially in the creation myth.

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* https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-judgement-of-paris-jose-camaron-y-bononat.html

* https://www.thoughtco.com/who-was-briseis-111790

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_B%C3%B6cklin_-_Odysseus_and_Polyphemus.jpg

* https://www.mythinglinks.org/creation.html