Emotional
Why do we lose what we love by checking if it's still there?
Orpheus walked out of the Underworld with one simple rule: don't look back. Eurydice was right behind him. He just had to trust that. He couldn't.
I lost you because I could not bear not seeing you.— Orpheus, in Ovid's *Metamorphoses*
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Mythic Poet & Musician
Orpheus is the legendary musician of Greek mythology whose descent into the Underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice remains one of the oldest stories about love and loss.
Based on Orpheus — Theoi Greek Mythology, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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