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[Pyros]

my friend hoplitis,

Is it the trip to Ithaka or Ithaka itself that matters the more?

quote from the poem “Ithaka” by C. Cavafy - regarding the journey home of Odysseus (aka Ulysses) after the Trojan War ended.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so that you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

kisses to the family