Find your partner early. You will shape each other. That’s how you end up with a soulmate. The culture that told you to wait is broken. Just look around and you’ll see what I mean.
Every woman in the Odyssey represents a type of woman that a man may encounter in his life and a sin or a virtue associated. Calypso: forgetting his mission to live in fantasy land. Circe: giving into his passions and lusts. Nausicaa: chasing the unreal ideal.
Only Penelope is real and furthermore, the pursuit of Penelope and the pursuit of his true and noble mission are one and the same.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
The secret most people miss is that you don't have to succeed at something immediately, you just have to survive it. Stay in the game long enough, and what looks like luck or magic eventually turns into success.
Not giving a fuck about your reputation, especially when you have none, is an extraordinarily powerful, exceedingly rare ability. This is precisely what makes all the difference. people waste their entire lives defending something that doesn't even exist.