Ultimate victory through terrible loss
Just like what an old quote says, life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence. And absence to "value presence." And ironically, ultimate victory comes with real terrible loss. I don't know why it ends up like that though maybe it's some kind of a human nature and I can't argue with that. As benevolently unfair as it seems, victory can be genuinely felt if you have experienced the terrifying feeling of losing.
Everything happens because of destiny and all and that we need to sacrifice a lot to obtain something great which is primarily true if you are a bit of unfortunate to get what you want without sacrificing a lot.
In the epic Aenid, Aeneas had the greatest terrible loss throughout the story. In my opinion, ultimate victory through terrible loss is quite inhumane because it kind of tells me that i need to lose something or someone dear to my heart or else I will not have my ultimate victory. Which is quite fair I guess but still sad. I mean, in case of Aeneas, yes he had his ultimate victory but along with it, a lot of people died and are all important to him. It's like sacrificing all of your possessions just to buy a gadget you badly want.
Anyhow I guess the decision is always yours. If you think the sacrifices aren't worth sacrificing for something else you badly want, then better not fulfill what you thought is your ultimate victory. And I guess that is what Aeneid tells us: to weigh things better so you can decide better and think rationally. In Aeneas' case, his ultimate victory was something that's maybe worth fighting and sacrificing for. His decisions were very selfless that even if his loved ones were dying, he still continued to strive hard to fulfill his destiny for the Trojans. And that is where I suppose the ultimate victory is exactly used, for selfless decisions that you know will help a lot of people.
Everything happens because of destiny and all and that we need to sacrifice a lot to obtain something great which is primarily true if you are a bit of unfortunate to get what you want without sacrificing a lot.
In the epic Aenid, Aeneas had the greatest terrible loss throughout the story. In my opinion, ultimate victory through terrible loss is quite inhumane because it kind of tells me that i need to lose something or someone dear to my heart or else I will not have my ultimate victory. Which is quite fair I guess but still sad. I mean, in case of Aeneas, yes he had his ultimate victory but along with it, a lot of people died and are all important to him. It's like sacrificing all of your possessions just to buy a gadget you badly want.
Anyhow I guess the decision is always yours. If you think the sacrifices aren't worth sacrificing for something else you badly want, then better not fulfill what you thought is your ultimate victory. And I guess that is what Aeneid tells us: to weigh things better so you can decide better and think rationally. In Aeneas' case, his ultimate victory was something that's maybe worth fighting and sacrificing for. His decisions were very selfless that even if his loved ones were dying, he still continued to strive hard to fulfill his destiny for the Trojans. And that is where I suppose the ultimate victory is exactly used, for selfless decisions that you know will help a lot of people.
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