The other odyssey

ODYSSEY.....

MY ODYSSEY........

Not the Homeric one, to be sure.

That was a journey involving bigger than life characters. Heroes and villians alike were entities of significance. Homer gave even the suitors of Odysseus' wife Penelope a certain cachet........

My life journey is nothing like that. Certainly a localised ripple of happiness when I was born, maybe a localised ripple (or maybe not) of sadness when I pass away. Both transient, as ripples are -- the first perhaps less so than the second. Babies do give moments of happiness to their mothers, especially if they show some promise in their infancy. That too passes, the promise evaporates, the (fool's) gold becomes dross. Life hurtles on, choices are made, some (or many) turn out to be, well, sub-optimal, and then, and then, and then........what????

Then to the place where none returns from. Not even Odysseus could bring his mother and friends back from Hades.

Eternal Peace? Eternal Regrets? Who knows?

But wait... I think I have the answer and, as with life, the answer spawns another question...

It is neither "Eternal Peace" nor "Eternal Regrets". It is just an eternal nothingness.

But...

But, if "eternal nothingness" then why this journey of nonexistence to birth to death to eternal nothingness; with so many years of insignificance, of torture, in fact of nothingness in between?

Why not collapse the entire time-line into one zero........

Maybe THAT is the Cosmic joke.

Who knows?