![]() Icarus teaches you have power over what you do with your gifts, and to what heights and destinations they take you. Two alternative themes emerge, transforming the tragic tale into one of moral allegory. To make the most of your gifts, you don’t need to make yourself into more than you are, you don’t need to fly higher than you can and burn yourself, but you also don’t need to stay down on earth, denying your own wings to fly. The story of Icarus and his father Daedalus has been represented many times in literature and art. If you don’t fly-or you try to fly too high like Icarus, the myth teaches you’ll find yourself falling into the depths of emotional despair, drowning in your egoic feelings (as represented by the sea Icarus drowned in). Do we not use them and never take flight? Do we accept them as they are and fly proudly on them to new destinations? Or do we misuse them, flying too high, too close to the Sun, destroying our gift and ourselves in the process? We all have, and are given, wings to fly on and it is our choice what we do with them. Icarus believed he could bear the heat of the sun despite the. The traditional moral of the story is to beware ambition because risks can lead to unexpected consequences however, there are far more lessons to be learned from Icarus. Instead, he chose to push it further, to a place where his gift was destroyed, and he destroyed himself in the process. The moral of the myth of Icarus can also be seen as the danger of recklessness and immaturity. Whats the moral of the story of Icarus Many people are familiar with the Greek legend of Icarus, a boy who flew on wings of feathers and wax. It was Icarus’ choice not accept his gift as it was and to see it as enough. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea.Īs I see it, this myth is a lesson about balance, about finding balance with your ego and with your gifts. But Icarus became enthralled with his ability to fly and forgot his father’s warning. His father cautioned him that flying too near the Sun would cause the wax to melt. ![]() ![]() Do you know the Greek myth of Icarus? Icarus is the son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax.
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