I wanted to be true and be looked at with respect. "No one suffered for Thebes more than I did, I sorrow more for them than for myself because I felt every bodies pain". I was a true leader and one who always put my people before myself. I was one who understood what it was to be a ruler of a kingdom, and I did what needed to be done. I knew what my duty was and that was what I wanted to follow. I needed to save thousands of people and I would go to any means to find the truth to do so, even if it lead to my own demise.

The fault behind my fate lay partly on Apollo and on the prophecy that he told. Had I bee

As I destroyed the sphinx by answering its riddle, I destroyed myself by answering the riddle of my own birth. We are all born into a world we did not choose or create, stumbling blindly toward self-awareness and often knowingly deny who we are for shame or sake of others. I must not from this day see those who I have shamed for the sake of myself.

How can you blame me for committing murder when my own father, my own flesh and blood was the one who wanted me dead? Laius wanted me dead because he valued his own life more than he valued the life of his child (me). He tried to defy the gods and, to prove fate wrong.

n blind to the prophecy I would have remained in Corinth and ruled as a true leader, and I would not have killed my father and married my mother.

Why? Why do these things happen to me? Why when I try to be the best do I seem to get the worst? Was it my fate that led me here? I was destined to follow the prophecy at birth.

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I acted harshly against myself. I did not know what I was getting my

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