Irresponsible Decisions In Odysseus's Traveling Journey

Some journeys have a purpose and others grow a purpose. Journeys can be spiritual, emotional, or physical. A spiritual journey can be grown in your relationship with yourself, an emotional journey can be a time where you suffered a lot of emotions, and lastly is a physical journey which is a time where you come across different obstacles when going from one point to another. On the physical journey of a 45-year-old man who walked across the U.S. starting in California and ending in New York learned a lot as he walked for 5 months. The man would come across challenges such as no safe shelter and feeding himself throughout his walk but he had to adapt to new ways and figure out something that would work out for him to keep him going. Similarly,

In his traveling journey, Odysseus comes across a deep curiosity but this curiosity becomes an irresponsible decision. Odysseus proclaims, “how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.” (Homar, 565) He made an irresponsible decision for his curiosity about the caveman's offering. Better decisions could have been made because he admits that it wasn't a pretty sight for his friends. Later throughout Odysseus’ journey, he develops a habit of thinking before he executes an action. Odysseus said, “ I had touched the spot when sudden fear stayed me: if I killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside.” (Homer, 568) Odysseus expressed a feeling that if he killed the cyclops he and his men would get stuck by his huge body in the doorway, he thought before he made his decision. Odysseus grew from acting on personal interest an irresponsible decision to thinking about the consequences of an action that is more

The journey mattered more than the destination when he showed bad leadership and then became an honorary one. Odysseus said,” My men were mutinous, fools. On stores of wine.” (Homer, 563) Odyssey spoke badly of his own men even though he is their leader, this suggests that he is a bad leader. He could speak better of his team which is his men. Later throughout Odysseus’ travels, he speaks highly of his men when he says,” As luck would have it, the men I would have chosen won the toss- four strong men, and I made five as captain.” (Homer, 569) He calls his men strong and includes himself as one of them not superior, he’s just as strong as them. He grew from talking negatively of his men making him a bad leader to speaking highly of them and titling them as a team and not a hierarchy. This journey allowed him to grow a trait as a