A Decision Can Change Everything

                Decisions can make our life change. It may be a good or a bad one and it may depends on the situation your in to. Try to think that everything has its own end. You can never make a good decision always. Sometimes, It's hard to think that someone that you want to be with was the one who chose to to his job first than to stay with you. Like in a family, children think that their parents have no time with them, resulting to family problems, but they didn't know that their doing it for the sake of them and for the family and even on were they are up to.

                In Aeneid, were Aeneas decided to flee troy than to obey Creusa's request to protect their home from the Greeks. Aeneas choose his family to be safe, but Creusa was lost during their commotion. Aeneas was relieved when Creusa's ghost appeared and said that he must continue and a new life awaits him. also in the part in Illiad, were Andromache pleads her husband Hector not to go to the war. Hector refuses to accept this request and instead, he serve his country and help Trojans in defend their land. He chose his duty than his family. these decisions was very hard to make for them because the country and your family is on the line. Aeneas chose his family's safety while Hector chose to serve his country.

               On the decisions made by the two, it can be a good one. For Aeneas, he must protect his family than their house. A man can be sad and weakened if his wife was lost forever, but he use this as a strength and follow the last words of his wife to him. Hector serves his country with honor and courage. Andromache can be proud of the courage of Hector for serving many people. He chose the safety many and even though he failed, he tried to save them. Decisions, can change everything so we must be careful in choosing the right one.

Getting Victorious Through Loss

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that's why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

               

                Victory, one of the happiest moments of all people especially on winning something. But, champions goes inroads and obstacles on were they fall before they take the crown. Like Aeneas, he had lost almost all his love ones and even his closest friends during the war. King Priam was slain together with his family. Creusa, his wife was lost when they flee from Troy. His father, Anchises, died in Drepanum from were they had faced a Cyclops. Dido, who commits suicide for her depression with Aeneas and with Aeneas' departure in Carthage. Pallas, a young soldier, who died in the hands of Turnus and made Aeneas mad and wants to take revenge with it. This can affect Aeneas' inner feelings and can made him lost his focus in winning the war because of this. 

                Because of his lost of his closest friends and love ones, Aeneas made this as a source of strength and power to defeat Turnus. Even though he lost the city of Troy, he continued fighting together with the Trojans even though they are outnumbered until they had been victorious. In real life, you will not win a game if you don't even have a chance to be defeated. For some people, they made it an inspiration to be better than ever. They will train hard to adjust and to be victorious.

                To take the winning crown, you must pass the cross roads and other obstacles and right there, you will learn something that will lead you to victory. You must accept those failures that you encounter in life. Just make it an inspiration to be better next time. Failures are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn.  If you don't learn, you'll never change.   

As Troy Falls

                There was a part in the book of Aeneid, were Aeneas tells a true story about the city he was born and lived with. Troy, was an ancient city which was built by the Trojans, who were against the Greeks. the fall of the city begins upon the entering of the "Trojan Horse" which they knew that it was only a gift, and a symbol of peace between the Greeks and Trojans. But hundreds of warriors go out the belly of it and attacked the city. Troy, was destroyed and conquered by the Greeks, but the Trojans who survived the surprised attack including Aeneas flee and go away safely.

                I feel sympathy in Aeneas because seeing the place from where you grew up and just being destroyed was sad and horrible. All the memories on that place, and even the famous trademarks on the place will just vanish in your own sight. Aeneas lost some of his closest friends and even his loved ones including Creusa, his wife. As a man, it would bring so much hatred and pain inside your heart, and you will think that its better to die because you have no reason to live, when you lost your wife that you loved and cared for a very long time. I also felt the feeling when Aeneas live the city, unable to protect it. You must be hating your own self for not doing anything to protect your homeland and at the same time, thinking of going back and avenge the ones you lost. 

                If Aeneas and the other Trojans will live to found Rome, my feelings will not change. I will be glad if they had found it because they have contributed in the history of Rome and see how they will live like they were in Troy. 

A Mysterious Smile

            Monalisa, a painting made by the famous Leonardo da Vinci, and the most famous painting in Western art History. The painting shows a woman looking out at the viewer with what is described an enigmatic smile. People don't understand what is meant by her smile. Some said that she was happy, angry, and even bored and disgusted. But every time the people sees it, it seems that she was changing her expression or feelings. Some doctors and other professionals examine the painting on what is the mystery behind her smile.

           For me, she was a demure woman with her smile. Also, the smile was hiding something in it, something that I can't express in words except that she was happy and keeping a secret. No wonder, Leonardo da Vinci is one of the famous painter in the world. But most of all, this painting made me realized that an art describes life and an expression on how the painter feels.