The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet II and III

It is so ironic how Enkidu is slowly becoming more civilized. First, he lays with the harlot and the animals run away from him. Next, he is taught how to eat and drink like a civilized man. He then stays up all night to protect the people form the wild beasts. The same ones with which he grazed and drank water with seven days ago. Apparently, this process of civilization is good for Enkidu. Still, what would have happened to Enkidu if he never had been civilized? We can relate it to ourselves and our own process of civilization. What would have happened if we had stayed as hunter gatherers and never become civilized? It is a very complicated view of how things would have been different. We probably would be living like Enkidu; naked, "grazing", and drinking with fellow beasts, in harmony with nature. We would have never achieved all our feats of architecture and technology. We would have never even created the society in which we live in today. Would we even miss the world we have so perfectly accommodated for ourselves? Is it even possible to miss something you've never had? To this questions I have no answer. It all depends on each individuals own perspective of life.