gilgamesh
... them for good deeds. The only difference is Gilgamesh questioning his strive for success and holding back on his rescues. I came across the idea that Gilgamesh wasn’t a hero. A hero is a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods. He was clearly chosen by the gods and lacked courage when he made an attempt to cheat in searching for eternal life. If Gilgamesh was immortal none of his tasks would be a challenge for him. He is the only one that given those tasks can complete them due to his strength and knowledge. In spite of him cheating his everlasting life he was in fact a hero. He departs from home for a journey on his own to reach a point where he encounters many gods and monsters with supernatural powers. Later, he returns these insights that are shared with his community. Gilgamesh eventually accepts the fact that chosen by the gods he is indeed mortal and cannot avoid it. Like superman and spiderman they have “gods” as well who choose their destiny. Another puzzling topic of Gilgamesh was, “Is it worth fighting against your fate?” The gods chose Gilgamesh’s destiny to die, but was it fate or accident for him to kill the Bull of Heaven and the sea serpent arriving to eat the flower. I chose to compare this question to the movie Serendipity. This movie is a comical story on two individuals that test their fate in being together. They share a few perfect hours with one another before parting ways, leaving future encounters to her quirky obsession with fate. "A few years later," they're about to marry their respective fiancés (reluctantly, of course), and urgently hoping for destiny to bring them back together. Serendipity is the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. I began to analyze the scene by the water. Was the serpent sent by the gods, was it unlucky of Gilgamesh to place to flower at the exact moment of the serpent arriving, or was it simply fate? Was it Gilgamesh’s fate set up by the gods to kill the Bull of Heaven or was it simply an unlucky accident? Sometimes serendipity is defined as having a natural gift for making wondrous discoveries by accident but there are no accidents, or coincidences as it were. This is not a naive perception of events; there is tragedy in this existence because there is also comedy. Keeping dishonesty in focus is an essential tool for molding your life into one worth living. People who refer to unexplained, random, and somehow related occurrences as coincidences do so because they cannot yet see the interrelationship of one thing to another, which is the big picture—also known as the universal view of existence. Serendipity does not happen by chance; it happens to all those who are willing to see beyond the power of god. Serendipity favors those who a...