Read Tablets X-XI: the journey for eternal life

Gilgamesh has become obsess for Utnapishtim to tell him the secret to live eternally like the gods. He doesn’t want to go like Enkidu did he saw his suffering and he wishes no t to die he wants to live eternally. “He looked like one who has undergone a journey, his face bitten by hunger or by sorrow.” pg 54 The most ironic thing is that he is killing himself to find the answers to eternal life, but he never comes to realize it being that he is so blinded by his search. “Almost as soon as Gilgamesh the king sat down to test himself, a mist of sleep as ocean mist comes over the shore from the water, came over his eyes, and so the strongest slept… Gilgamesh said: I had almost fallen asleep” pg 76-77 Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh before he left for Uruk of the plant How-the-Old-Man-Once-Again-Becomes-a-Young-Man. “ I will give some of the plant to the elders there to share among them, telling them it is called How-the-Old-Man-Once-Again-Becomes-a-Young-Man. And I will take my share of the magic plant” pg 80 He had finally had found what he was looking for and he was not planning to keep it to himself and I think in this is one of the many ways Enkidu has change Gilgamesh way of thinking.