Where are we going? How did we get here? Why are we here? Three simple questions on the first look but if we look down really deep they are the three most complicated questions you can answer. Gilgamesh’s ending is not what I had expected is just a way of repeating the story in other words. The book whole purpose is to teach us a lesson of humans and it did, it shows how humans got were we are. We got here by the invisible ownership of the world, by trying to conquer and rule everything in our path to make ourselves believe that we are the superior race. We do not respect the other creature’s lives we, destroy everything in the path; Gilgamesh is a perfect example for how humans are now days, when he entered the Cedar forest to kill the protector of nature so he could divide what is called “uncivilized” in other words animals from “civilized” us humans he destroyed other animals life to make his life easy. To answer the question in simple words we got here by our actions of conquering. Gilgamesh’s way of being is an example of all questions. But the book answers more clearly the how did we get here than the rest.
So the epic novel of Gilgamesh is a book that gets in the end there is a part I got to interpret “The one who goes to the Nether World without leaving behind him any to mourn for him? Garbage is what he eats in the Netherworld. No dog would eat the food he has.” (Gilgamesh, page 92) o got to this quote is this how we are all going to end up? With no one that will mourn for us? It depends on how you live life. It depends if you waste it trying to avoid death or just to make money. It depends on each of us. But what is the purpose of life? For me is what you make it we have to live life as much as we can enjoy it every single second. This is not a lesson we learn directly from the book but we can somewhere find it. It is hard to realize what are we doing with our lives is it right is it wrong? But I have noticed that is not our time to make so many questions we got here by our actions and were we are going depends to us. I really enjoyed the book because I learned about life in my way it answered many questions that I had but it also left me with doubts that I will have to solve the rest of my life. I think that the lessons we learn from a text depends on the point of view and how we want to learn it, it depends on how closely are we looking or how far. In other words it depends to us.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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