Lotus eaters

They spent all their days eating of a lily white flower and who forget all their cares. Sounds like a paradise to me. Yeah, to live a life without worry. ODDysee spreaks of the land of the lotus eaters in a kind of a haze of a fond almost forgotten memory. However, who were these lotus eater and what does it means for us? Fables often have inside a kernal of truth, but not this one. Sadly, there are no lotus flowers that make us forget our pain. That said many use certain substances to forget our cares.