Trojan War. It all began when young Paris of Troy decided to take up the offer of one Aphrodite, goddess of love. Her promise was to make Helen, wife of King Menelaus of the Mycenae and the most beautiful woman in the world, fall hopelessly, head-over-heels in love with him.
Personally, I would have chosen Athena. I mean, all the knowledge in the world? Come on guys, technology isn't going to store the things we should know forever.
Still, my brain brushed off this little detail when I first learned the full story of the Trojan War in social studies. I wanted wisdom, other people wished for power, and some other people liked the idea of having a hot girlfriend or boyfriend. That was that.
But then, my best friend, June Tenefeye, brought it up during one of our FaceTime calls. We were talking about which goddess we would have chosen had it been our decision and that's when it hit me.
I hate godly meddling.
Helen loved King Menelaus. She had no such feelings for Paris until Aphrodite worked her magic.
And then I started thinking about how much power Aphrodite really has over love. She could make you fall in love with the greatest guy on Earth, or she could make you fall in love with a streetlamp. And even though Aphrodite is a myth and all those other love goddesses are all myths, it got me riled up.
We, as humans, have many emotions. We can feel angry, we can feel sad, we can feel happy- it's all based on ourselves, our consciousness and occasionally our tempers. But it's us, we make the choice to feel that way.
Isn't love the greatest, most powerful emotion of all? Isn't there always a girl? Or a boy? Isn't that our most treasured quality because we love and love and love again and again and even the darkest of us continue to love something or someone? So why the heck should a love goddess make some of these choices? Why should a love goddess have the power to make two people fall in love, instead of on their own accords?
Maybe this is just picking a fight over nothing. Love goddesses don't exist- they're part of this huge cloud of supposedly powerful deities that don't even have the slightest sway over our lives (of course, this is excluding religious beliefs- I myself am an atheist and I don't have the right to say anything other than that I do not have a religion).
But picking up, it angers me that these immortals had the power to control an emotion that belongs to us. I don't care if Aphrodite or Venus or Eros or Cupid can make the boy I like like me back. What's the point if I can simply accept that he doesn't like me back?
And so, to conclude, I despise love deities because they shouldn't be allowed to meddle with love. Love is something that we, as humans, should be allowed to feel and experience without someone else telling us who to fall in love with.
If we are told what to feel or made to feel something, then what is love?
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Note: I wrote this after FaceTiming a friend and letting out this anger and dislike towards love goddesses. I didn't edit this and this is, for the most part, a lot of word vomit. Still, I hope you enjoyed this!
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