The Immortal Quandrary

During my final essay from Dr. McCoy’s class I spoke about this phenomenon called the “immortal quandary” in myths that I would like to delve into since the rest of the class will be unable to read my piece. The immortal quandary deals with a common scene in most myths, a god wanders into the land of humans looking for entertainment, treats the lives of others around him or her as expendable and then said god comes into deep emotional contact with a human (whether that be romantically, platonically) and they always change and become more empathetic. However, this seems strange because with immortality on their side the gods should have never-ending knowledge since they’ve seen the entire existence of the world itself. It seems as though The immortal quandary proves that one of the things that humans view as our biggest hindrance, our mortality is honestly our biggest strength. We value life because we know the reality of death coming to all men eventually , we value love because we all have felt the feeling of a broken heart before, we value warmth because of these cold and bitter Geneseo winters. Our idea of “perfection” that we’re drawn too has good intentions but sadly is misguided because I genuinely believe that the most imperfect parts of our existence are some of the most beautiful.