Philosophical
What if getting lost is the only way back?
Odysseus could have sailed straight home to Ithaca. Instead, it took him ten years. Not because the sea was that big, but because every shortcut, every temptation, every moment of pride added another detour.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.— Homer, *The Odyssey*
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The thinker
The Original Long Way Home
Odysseus is the hero of Homer's Odyssey, whose ten-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War became the Western world's defining story about what it costs to find where you belong.
Based on The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Samuel Butler), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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