Unappreciated

Why does mythology explain some of the things we have now? All the flowers, birds, and even blueberries! When I finished reading a myth it either astonishes me, or disappoints me. Definitely, I don’t believe in what Greek mythology says, but its logic is right there. Is their way to answering why life is life, if that’s their point of view what is there to say?

Echo wants to be the first to begin a conversation. Most of us want to have the final argument. It is always about having the only one and right answer. In the myth it states, “Her bones were changed into rocks and there was nothing left of her but her voice. With that she is still ready to reply to any one who calls her, and keeps up her old habit of having the last word.” This is how mythology interprets what they didn’t understand, as Echo, a nymph. She wanted the last word and she was granted it, for us having the final word is crucial and makes us feel greater. Echo turned out to be the opposite of our intentions. Narcissus the self centred youth, can be interpreted as the flower, or what we know as narcissistic, “The term narcissism means love of oneself, and refers to the set of character traits concerned with self-admiration, self-centeredness and self-regard….While almost everyone is narcissistic to some degree, certain forms of narcissism can be highly dysfunctional” (Wikipedia, Narcissism). Here it says we all love ourselves to some degree, our ego is high or low, when it is too high we are dysfunctional. The same happens in any case of extremity, too much or too little is always a problem. The issue then is in staying in that “normal” spot, being able to control ourselves.

The doomed love of Pyramus and Thisbe proofs barriers. It is explanatory of the unreachable, what we don’t want. We always want what we can’t get, most of the times life works against us. What I like about mythology, is that it proves this point, life is not at all perfect. What we see in Disney or movies in general are mostly happy endings an hallucination of reality. In the case of Pyramus and Thisbe exposes how love can be impossible, and what we think we can get is always influenced by our actions, our beliefs, what we do and what we say. The memories of this imperfection are blueberries, according to Greek mythology this is how they came to be.

We sometimes give love but don’t receive, in mythology it is because of Cupid’s fault. His arrows, his misfortunes are a curse. In the case of Venus and Adonis, it is for his own mother. Venus is in love with Adonis, Adonis dies and his memory is a flower, what we know as Adonis. This love is often seen in real life, but we leave it for what is granted, or maybe because it is not enough. Love can get to be a curse, a calamity but something to be overcome in life.

Myths are never to be forgotten, myths are myths and that is why they are remembered. For me it how myths connect themselves to our present, how Greeks thought ahead, how they had a different point of view. Their religion explained everything to them, which can be why our religion doesn’t satisfy many of us. Now scientific proof has defeated this faith, but what still remains, can’t be taken away.