Trojan War

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War is a very dangerous and traumatic event that could happen in someone’s life. It can cause a trauma, pain, and sadness to every people who happened to experience the life during war. It may be dangerous yet you can actually learn something from it, you can learn how to appreciate life. If you happen to be a soldier, the painful time to realize how good life is, is when you got hit by the bullet.  Flashbacks are coming into your mind and you’ll remember every single detail of the time you spent it with your love ones. The laugh, the joy, the happiness you felt will come back. You will learn how to be courageous, to think fast, and to move fast because you are currently in the field of war wherein this kind of skills and personality is needed. If you happened to be the family and the society, all of us will learn how to appreciate them, for they fought hard for us, for our safety, and for the country. In war itself, we will learn how to be courageous, since there is no exception. There are only two ways to stop dwelling because of war. It’s either you can get killed literally or you’ll get killed by the pain emotionally.

               The story of the Trojan War is the Bronze Age conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece that shakes the history and mythology of Ancient Greece. Trojan War is a war that was never forgotten by many. It is the war that made a mark on lots of literature books. The Trojan War do involves creatures that we couldn’t imagine existing. It has events that could make people think if this is really true or just a pure imagination of the writer himself, Homer.  

               As of today, archaeologists are investigating where could this war have took place and they have already uncovered increasing evidence about the kingdom. According to Near Eastern Archaeology, The German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann uncovered a site, known as Hisarlik, which many experts believed that this is the well-known city of Troy. The city discovered is clearly destroyed during the Bronze Age War.  In that case, we can really say that the Trojan War may happen yet it may not be like how Homer described it on his stories. Due to lack of evidence at Hisarlik, experts and archaeologists continue to think whether or not the Trojan War took place. There may be events that are similar but we can actually tell that he uses real places for his story if experts will find a better evidence to make it believable.

               What I learn after knowing the story of Trojan War, I learned that be careful of the gift that the gods and goddesses blessed you. Just like what happened to Paris, for the goddess Aphrodite bears his desire he wasn’t able to think about the consequence of his choice. A war commence because of a piece of apple. Other than that, I learned how to control everything around me since I believe that small things can be turned into something big. I learned how to be wise in decision making, to think about the consequence first before deciding, to think about the people surrounding me before taking up an action. Because we don’t know your decision can cause a 10 year war, just like what happened to Paris.

               The story of Trojan War, started when Helen of Troy was abducted due to Judgement of Paris wherein he chooses to be with the most beautiful woman in the world. Can a woman be the reason for war to commence? That is a question that popped out in my mind when I found out and read the story.

The story Trojan War taught us that “Big things started and comes from small actions” and this quote can be the best quote to describe what happened to the Trojan War. It may not be real yet it teaches us great values and lessons that we could bring on as we grow old. Some of us comes to realizations that even the goddess can’t be everyone’s favorite, and that opens me the thought about coating myself with what the others want me to be can still make people hate me, I come to realizations that I rather be myself that to coat it with the others want to see. And I believe that this is the most beautiful thing that this story had taught me. Other than that, I conclude that war can never be an answer to conflicts.