Wings of the victory

It’s interesting how a brand new pair of Nike shoes that I “accidentally” received as a gift streamlined my whole creative energy, analysing symbols of freedom and victory, and kept me entirely dipped into the Greek mythology. In an attempt of digging the reason to get those “winged” shoes, all of a sudden the image of Perseus popped up into my mind, holding bravely Gorgon’s head. And then, as if in a perfect moment of synchronicity, Pegasus rushed through the window, reminding me of his birth out of Gorgon’s blood.

While pondering with a significant dose of unwillingness, what a Gorgon I will have to defeat in the real life, I was still glad that Nike, the goddess of victory, was by my side. Life needs heroes after all, and we all need heroes to admire! However, there will be no heroes if there are no feats. That’s why Gods send hardships and big challenges to their beloved ones to be defeated in order to make them heroes, and they, in return, take them with the necessary dignity and honour, knowing that the outcome will be in their favour.

The Greek mythology offers a great number of mystical monsters and unbelievable encounters to be defeated, while on the contrary, real life does not seem to offer the same opportunities for the heroes to be. That’s how we are more likely to accept the myths as something imaginary instead of adjusting our perceptions to interpret the symbolism of the real life challenges. In fact, life offers us as well a great number of opportunities to become heroes, but on the contrary, we take them as punishment or ordeals and a green light to complain.

Our attempts to escape from facing the challenges has made us look for more convenient options to make us stand higher. That’s why we would leave feats for the heroes and choose to be simply successful people. However, being a successful person does not have the same connotation as experiencing the victory of a defeated challenge. The success is just a string of small and maybe not so small achievements which we collect in life. It’s only us testing our own abilities against our own desires and visions of success.

So far so good, but Gods get bored with successful people since they love heroes. Playing on the safe side of life and overcoming the little failures will not make anybody a hero. There must be a big challenge “sent by somebody else” to give the opportunity for someone to become a hero. We may not meet a mystical monster, but we may lose everything to have made us think to be successful. Face the challenge and turn your little success story into victory. You won’t be alone as Gods help their beloved ones in those feats. Just do it one more time, for the feat!