The Big Show: A Lesson In Humility
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Louis Hector Berlioz
This may be true for mortals, but for myself, I am exempt. At least, from the killing part. I am not exempt from learning, nor would I want to be. I love all that I have learned over the eons I have existed. There is so much knowledge in the world, if only people would sit down and take the time to appreciate it. Yet, the most valuable lessons I have learned are not about technical or the inventions that have come in time. The lessons I value most from time are humility and acceptance.
I have always been more understanding than the rest of my family, but that did not make me a good Goddess. I have torture mortals, killed them, transformed them. I was not a nice Goddess when I first came into being. When the Greek Gods fell out of power and were "replaced" I was angry. I wanted to lead a war against the Christians, I wanted to destroy them as they destroyed my temples and my followers. I was so angry, so hurt. I needed someone to pay.
The feeling has lessened over the years. In fact, it is gone now. I have come to accept that what happened to me and my family was the natural progression of things. I could not stop it nor change it. Fighting it would have done me no good either. Instead of raging, whining or complaining about it, I have made the best of it and I have found benefits to it. After all, I have so much free time now that I can learn all that I wish. I have no followers who are constantly begging for attention. Best of all, no one I need to punish. It is a relief to have time to myself and do all the things I wish to do. Including time to think about what has happened to me and become as accepting as I have become.
This may be true for mortals, but for myself, I am exempt. At least, from the killing part. I am not exempt from learning, nor would I want to be. I love all that I have learned over the eons I have existed. There is so much knowledge in the world, if only people would sit down and take the time to appreciate it. Yet, the most valuable lessons I have learned are not about technical or the inventions that have come in time. The lessons I value most from time are humility and acceptance.
I have always been more understanding than the rest of my family, but that did not make me a good Goddess. I have torture mortals, killed them, transformed them. I was not a nice Goddess when I first came into being. When the Greek Gods fell out of power and were "replaced" I was angry. I wanted to lead a war against the Christians, I wanted to destroy them as they destroyed my temples and my followers. I was so angry, so hurt. I needed someone to pay.
The feeling has lessened over the years. In fact, it is gone now. I have come to accept that what happened to me and my family was the natural progression of things. I could not stop it nor change it. Fighting it would have done me no good either. Instead of raging, whining or complaining about it, I have made the best of it and I have found benefits to it. After all, I have so much free time now that I can learn all that I wish. I have no followers who are constantly begging for attention. Best of all, no one I need to punish. It is a relief to have time to myself and do all the things I wish to do. Including time to think about what has happened to me and become as accepting as I have become.