User:Tithon

Facts about Tithon

This user lives in Scotland.

This user contributes using a Macintosh computer.

This user is a scientist.

This user is a member of the worldwide family of Scouts.

This user enjoys sailing.

This user is a certified scuba diver.

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Introducing myself

Thinking on what to write here, I suppose I am interested in just about everything (except possibly Association Football and Sociology).

Why Tithon?

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

So which would you rather be — the long-lived and boring ant or the fast-living, fun-loving grasshopper? In any case, some myths have the grasshopper outliving the ant:

Eos, the Goddess of Dawn, took Tithonus, son of Laomedon to be her lover. She asked Zeus if Tithonus could be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. Tithonus lived forever but grew more ancient and wrinkled, eventually turning into a grasshopper. Not that I am that wrinkled yet.

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