Life Lessons In The Odyssey

The Adventures of Odysseus
In The Odyssey, Odysseus tells of his crazy adventures on his way home, and at his last stop before he arrived home, he had lost his ship and the many men alongside of him. He ended up telling his adventures to a man who offered him a ship, if Odysseus could give him some interesting stories to talk about. When reading these three adventures of the many he has had, you could relate, "The Lotus-Eaters", "The Sirens", and "The Cyclops", to life lessons you may or have already learned in modern day.
Once Odysseus got to the adventure of, "The Lotus-Eaters”, he learned that the men on the island were addicted to the Honey Flower, Lotus. “The Lotus-Eaters” meant no harm to Odysseus or his men. They only wanted to share the Lotus plant that made whoever were to consume it lose hope of home. Odysseus was there only to get water, and once he learned of the plant he rejected it and left. The Lotus is and/or seems to be related to what we call modern day drugs. Drugs can change your behavior and/or the way you think. In addition, when it comes to modern day drugs a person is very likely to become addicted to them after experimenting. The life lesson you can learn is that you should

not use drugs or have any unhealthy addictions.
The adventure, "The Sirens was one that may have caught the eye. Odysseus met and stayed with a lady named Circe, even though he had a wife. Towards the end of the seven years with Circe, he was ready to leave. Before Odysseus left Circe told him of the dangerous Sirens, "The Sirens" sang beautiful songs luring sailors into destruction. "The Siren" tempted Odysseus with their singing, but Odysseus was prepared. He had his men put beeswax in their ears. When he heard "The Sirens" he begged his men to release him, but the men could not hear him, and the plan worked. In today's world you may have people trying to get you to do something you wouldn't normally do that could even hurt yourself. In this lesson of life, you could learn not to feed into temptation.
When reading "The Cyclops" Odysseus decides to go and enter into the Cyclops cave and wait for the giant creature to return.

When the Cyclops returned Odysseus and twelve of his best men were trapped in the cave by a boulder that the Cyclops put there to keep them from leaving. During the visit, the Cyclops ate a few of Odysseus’s men. In this adventure Odysseus did not think before he acted, leaving them in a sticky situation. He didn't even have a well-developed plan or back-up. In modern day life you could be applying for a job that you don't have the background for. This could leave you clueless and unprepared to perform the duties of the position. When you're reading this adventure you could grab a life lesson about how you should always be prepared for the

worst.
In conclusion, Odysseus went through many adventures, and in a few of the adventures he could have learned life lessons, leaving him more prepared if the situation were to happen again. While encountering these adventures, he was just trying to get home to his wife, after winning the battle at Troy. Odysseus spent a total of ten years on the journey home, seven of the years with Circe. Finally, when reading these three tales, you could have noticed they each told their own life lesson, and even though they were all different