We are not all like Odysseus who had to cross a perilous strait.

As the famous story tells of the King of Ithaca who sailed home after the Trojan Wars, Odysseus could not refuse.

In the narrow strait were overhanging rocks, crashed by the waves and making a continuous thunderous roar. Virtually no ship was safe. By one cliff, the tip of which was hidden in the clouds, was a large gap through which one had to pass; but this was also where Scyll