Informal Theme 4.1

Caught between fighting and following destiny

You built a house that you treated as your home, a storm came, everything and everyone was gone but you are alive. I think that’s how bad it feels like for Aeneas’ case. Hearing the sounds of fire burning up Troy and Trojans alive and in a far worse scenario, your wife being left and captured and maybe, burnt alive.

As Aeneas tells the fall of Troy, I can’t help but to feel sympathy towards everything and also to be annoyed on how life is so unfair. It’s so sad to see your homeland broke. It’s like watching a rising action of a tragic movie when you now that as far as you watch, things will be more tragic than the last. Just because some prophecies and irrational decisions were made, people die. Even if this story is an epic poem, I can’t help but to relate it to history like the Reign of Terror in French Revolution when approximately sixty thousand people died via guillotine because people there thought they’re being rational and they’re doing the best for the country.  Aeneas was there but he can do nothing to help and he needs to fulfill his destiny for him and the Trojans’ own sake, thus leaving immediately to found a new city in Rome (no, I think Italy). He was caught between fighting and letting go and he chose to move on and let go because that was his destiny. And that sucks because destiny, yes DESTINY. It’s like a natural phenomenon, inevitable. Because I think Aeneas would really stay there and fight with all his might until he dies or save his wife if not for his destiny.

My feelings did change knowing that Aeneas himself will leave to found Rome because I feel no sympathy anymore but annoyance because destiny overtakes again. But then I know everything will be a HAPPILY EVER AFTER if he does it so I think I’m fine with Aeneas going to Rome. We make our own destiny. No one can dictate anything for us because we have our own mind and it is supposed to be used. There is no artificial intelligence walking around us, telling us to do things and not to do things because this life is real, it is no poem or fantasy but life itself. I don’t know, I hate the thought of destiny even if stories end up merrily because of it.

“When bad things happen, I know you want to believe they are a joke, But sometimes life is scary and dark. That is why we must find the light.” – Jake, Adventure Time