What would you do if you know you only have one more day at home? When the question was first presented my first thought that I would spend my last day with all of my family and friends. With this time I thought about throwing a party in which we all celebrate being together. At this party, we would all make new memories that we can look back at when we are no longer together. After these couple hours, I would then do everything that I am going to miss.

Now thinking about what I would do to prepare for my twenty-year journey I would pack all of my favorite things. These favorite things include all of my favorite clothing and foods that I am gonna miss when I am gone from home. This would be so I can have a piece of home when I am gone for these twenty years. I know that during the time that I am gone I will miss seeing certain people in my everyday life. I would spend even more time with them even though we already spent time together earlier at the party.

After thinking about everything I said I would do before my twenty-year journey I realized that it would be very difficult to do. Not knowing when I will return or even if I would worries me and probably those around me too. Not knowing what will happen each day would be difficult. Also not being able to see those I trust and know on a daily basis would also be hard on me.

Odysseus went on this journey for twenty years and I cannot even imagine how difficult it was for him and his family. We did read about all that he went through and it did seem very difficult on him. He didn’t even have the time to prepare as he did not know it was going to be as long as twenty years. He was on his way home from the Trojan war, which took him ten years and then it took him ten more to face all the challenges that he did.

The overall consensus of this whole thought is that you have an everyday life that you live that you don’t even really take thought about and that it could be gone from you at any moment.