Endurance Training

Odysseus has many qualities both spiritual and physical I would love to have. Traits like cunning, wit and obedience our characteristics I find myself dabbling into from time to time, with occasional success, but it is his faith and endurance that I desire to make more common in my life. In the lab portion of class last Thursday I came across a quote that as a student and as a man demonstrates the enduring character of Odysseus, it reads: “and the waves swirled it way, stripped bare and snapped the mast from the decks-but a backstay made of bull’s hide still held fast, with this I lashed the mast and keel together, made them one riding a makeshift raft as the wretched gale winds bore me on and on”. The brilliance of Odysseus here is that he makes and deals with something from nothing. What is presented before him he does not let hinder him rather seemingly, with guile or cunning, endures it to his advantage.
As I ponder on that and trace over what we have done in class so far I have noticed that endurance is becoming the underlying theme, drone or canvas of our class with the melody and style being our actions played out over it! Let us face it no one wants to be in class at such a weird hour but we have to develop a rhythm to our study that fits the frequency, better yet, wave that is guiding us through humanities. Endurance is getting through those three hour class periods and listening past the not so peaceful siren in the tone of some teachers voices as well as communicating and trusting in classmates enough to bounce ideas off of them that will, in the long run, get me to home to a A.