When Does The Hero’s Journey Begin? aka. The Monomyth Part 2
Preconditions for this debate - You agree that the journey begins when you engage in life, life matters and that there are somethings that you have control over and you should engage in them against all odds in the hope that life will improve.
“Let’s start with defining faith. What’s faith?”
“Faith is the confidence in hope.”
“Well then what’s hope?”
“Hope is wanting something to occur. Both have no guarantees.”
“So to go on this journey we have to have the faith that we can do it?”
“Yes, faith that against all odds we can make life better than what it currently is.”
“Define life?
“All experienced consciousness.”
“So we’re engaging in this consciousness in the faith that we can improve it?”
“Yes.”
“And that it’s a journey.”
“Why a journey?”
“Well a journey means you’re starting from one place and moving towards a particular destination. While also you’re standing up against adversity and that takes courage. That’s why it’s called the Hero’s journey because Hero’s are courageous in the face of adversity.”
“So adversity is almost certain?”
“Yes that’s true but how do we want to engage in adversity?”
“With courage.”
“Yes with courage, to voluntarily choose to face adversity when it appears and having faith and hope that by doing our best we’ll overcome it.”
“It’d be so much easier without adversity to just go straight from A to B?”
“Yes it would but when we struggle with adversity that’s where all the lessons are, that’s where incremental progress lies. So lets adopt a mindset to actively seek adversity, knowing that the quicker you fail at something, the quicker you eliminate all the obstacles that might prevent you from achieving the goal.”
“That way we’re still voluntarily engaging even with adversity.”
“Yes and also understanding that in the pursuit of a goal, achieving the Hero’s Journey, much of us that existed before the journey might have left us.”
“Why might that happen?”
“Because what you thought might’ve been true could turn out to be false or untrue and something else needs to take it’s place better than before. Like a snake shedding it’s old skin for a new and better one. We might also get injured along the way but having the faith that’ll we’ll be stronger than before. I’ll leave you with that for now, all the rest is just detail, detail.”
In Summation - Have Courage by actively seek adversity knowing that the quicker you fail at something, the quicker you might eliminate the obstacles that prevent you from achieving the goal. And have faith and hope that you can and will overcome them.
That’s all for now folks,
The Average Tinker
