Every Day is an Ordinary Day

In class we talked about how everything has been done before. Being original means going back to the origins. If myth is the precedent behind every action, and every action already has a myth, then for any and everything that can happen in a day there is already a precedent. The precedent might just be one instance of someone having the same day as you, but chances are that this is not the case. If everyone in class relates to myths in Ovid, and Ovid is just retelling Greek stories, it implies that the experience which characterizes your day was already so common by the original oral creation of the myth that everyone could already identify with it. Several thousand years have passed since then, so by my estimates any day a person could have has already been experienced more than several times by others before him. While a certain day may seem out of the ordinary within the context of our own lives, that day has probably happened countless times before. If you look at it this way it seems pretty normal that one's son died trying to crash-land an experimental jet which hit a flock of geese. That sort of thing has been happening since before people knew how to write.