Understanding Psyche
As I sit here on this delightful, hot, sunny day my family worries that I will never find a husband. That I will never find true love. I go to the top of a hill and end up falling sound asleep thinking and just having time to myself. When I woke from my sleep I saw this beautiful mansion, full of curiosity I go inside the mansion to see lots of luxuries and food. I treat myself to the wonderful meal and during it all a man walks upon me. I quickly fall in love even though he has not been seen. We get married and live a happy life. But one day my husband came to me saying that my sisters have been missing me so I insist that they come visit me. My husband first disagreed with me but I continued to ask and weep for them to visit. He finally gave in and allowed my sisters to come to the mansion. For some reason as soon as my sisters walk in, they automatically get jealous. I didn’t understand this. They tried to fill my head with things that made me think. Stating that I might live with my husband but I don’t really see him. After my sisters leave while I am lying in bed with my husband I turn on the lamp just to take a peek. Come to my surprise it was CUPID! I would have never known. I was just shocked. I didn’t understand why he would hide himself from me. But before I could get a word he left. I was just so confused I didn’t quite understand. But instead of just standing there I set out to find my husband.
I finally came across his mother, Venus’s palace. I went to her pleading for forgiveness and asking her to give Cupid back to me. She told me I had to do a couple missions to prove that I loved Cupid and then I could have him back. She first gave me lots of seeds to sort in one night. This seemed impossible to do in one but I had gotten help from ants that seemed to have sympathy. Venus was surprised to see that I did such a thing such a short time. She gave me another quest to go find a golden fleece. So as I’m in the water I almost drown in my misery. Then when I almost give up I hear someone giving me guidance to go to the fields full of thorns to catch the fleece. As soon as I finish the mission I take the Golden Fleece to Venus. Once again she is surprised in my work and sends me on another. She tells me that I have to fill a flask from the mouth of Styx River. As I look at the river the mission seems impossible, and once I was about to give up an eagle helps me fill the flask. I take the flask to Venus to get my last task. Worried about what it’s going to be and just thinking of where Cupid could be. At this time I just wish he would come back to me.
Back to Venus I gave her the flask. She tells me that my last Task is to go to the underworld to Persephone so she could put some of her beauty in a box. As I leave the palace and start this odyssey to the underworld I start to think of how this mission is just impossible. I start to worry “has anyone made it out of the underworld?, will I make it out safe?”. As soon as I get there my body starts to shake, I feel chills go up my spine and as soon as I see Persephone I ask for her beauty. She looks at me and puts it in the box. Leaving the underworld didn’t seem so bad, I made it out safe. Happy and just full of praise going back to Venus to give her this box. On my journey back I start to look at this box. I start to wonder what could be in it. What would her beauty do? So out of curiosity I open the box, and after that I don’t remember a thing.
It seemed to be long after when I was wakened. To see handsome Cupid made me so excited and happy. Noticing that I made it through all of the tasks that Venus made me take it made me feel joyful inside. Cupid also told me that now; I was a goddess and no longer mortal. I wondered how this happened but because I was so happy I asked no questions. Now happily married to Cupid and with Venus by our side in full support my life is complete.
As I sit here on this delightful, hot, sunny day my family worries that I will never find a husband. That I will never find true love. I go to the top of a hill and end up falling sound asleep thinking and just having time to myself. When I woke from my sleep I saw this beautiful mansion, full of curiosity I go inside the mansion to see lots of luxuries and food. I treat myself to the wonderful meal and during it all a man walks upon me. I quickly fall in love even though he has not been seen. We get married and live a happy life. But one day my husband came to me saying that my sisters have been missing me so I insist that they come visit me. My husband first disagreed with me but I continued to ask and weep for them to visit. He finally gave in and allowed my sisters to come to the mansion. For some reason as soon as my sisters walk in, they automatically get jealous. I didn’t understand this. They tried to fill my head with things that made me think. Stating that I might live with my husband but I don’t really see him. After my sisters leave while I am lying in bed with my husband I turn on the lamp just to take a peek. Come to my surprise it was CUPID! I would have never known. I was just shocked. I didn’t understand why he would hide himself from me. But before I could get a word he left. I was just so confused I didn’t quite understand. But instead of just standing there I set out to find my husband.
I finally came across his mother, Venus’s palace. I went to her pleading for forgiveness and asking her to give Cupid back to me. She told me I had to do a couple missions to prove that I loved Cupid and then I could have him back. She first gave me lots of seeds to sort in one night. This seemed impossible to do in one but I had gotten help from ants that seemed to have sympathy. Venus was surprised to see that I did such a thing such a short time. She gave me another quest to go find a golden fleece. So as I’m in the water I almost drown in my misery. Then when I almost give up I hear someone giving me guidance to go to the fields full of thorns to catch the fleece. As soon as I finish the mission I take the Golden Fleece to Venus. Once again she is surprised in my work and sends me on another. She tells me that I have to fill a flask from the mouth of Styx River. As I look at the river the mission seems impossible, and once I was about to give up an eagle helps me fill the flask. I take the flask to Venus to get my last task. Worried about what it’s going to be and just thinking of where Cupid could be. At this time I just wish he would come back to me.
Back to Venus I gave her the flask. She tells me that my last Task is to go to the underworld to Persephone so she could put some of her beauty in a box. As I leave the palace and start this odyssey to the underworld I start to think of how this mission is just impossible. I start to worry “has anyone made it out of the underworld?, will I make it out safe?”. As soon as I get there my body starts to shake, I feel chills go up my spine and as soon as I see Persephone I ask for her beauty. She looks at me and puts it in the box. Leaving the underworld didn’t seem so bad, I made it out safe. Happy and just full of praise going back to Venus to give her this box. On my journey back I start to look at this box. I start to wonder what could be in it. What would her beauty do? So out of curiosity I open the box, and after that I don’t remember a thing.
It seemed to be long after when I was wakened. To see handsome Cupid made me so excited and happy. Noticing that I made it through all of the tasks that Venus made me take it made me feel joyful inside. Cupid also told me that now; I was a goddess and no longer mortal. I wondered how this happened but because I was so happy I asked no questions. Now happily married to Cupid and with Venus by our side in full support my life is complete.
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