In The Odyssey, Odysseus goes on a journey which was supposed to take only a few weeks in terms of time and resources. 

But it ends up taking 10 years. If the actual trip had gone according to plan, itd take a few weeks it would’ve been a terrible book. 

The adventure; all the unforeseen things was the main story

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

TLDR - side quests, waylays, and distractions make life "Epic"