Image: Circe Invidiosa
The Fountain of Youth
is not a myth
Not to say that myths are false.
Only that a myth is symbolic of something
And the Fountain of Youth is not a symbol.
Of course you could make it a symbol if you wanted to,
As is anything for that matter.
There are things you can touch, see, taste, and smell.
There are things you can remember and forget and remember again.
There are things you can count, memorize, and organize.
There are things you can learn, internalize, and become.
And there are things you know nothing of.
This is not an exhaustive list.
Gilgamesh sought the immortality of the gods
But the best he could do was the immortality of man.
Ovid and Achilles sought the same,
Although the later, we are told, regretted it.
An old Spaniard once told me
(I say “told” because old Spanish men always sound above me),
after a philosophical conversation,
that if I see him being tortured in hell
to lend him a hand.
I do not want a system to rule the world, life, and death.
And perhaps it doesn’t.