
My Hero’s Journey
My Hero’s Journey
Sooo the more and more I research the hero’s journey to help create my story. I realize key characteristics that stick out in our daily life that we seem to ignore because looking too closely would break our own hearts.
In order for a hero to overcome
His journey
He must do so much
But most importantly
He must go through hell and back
And that hell can be metaphorical or literal
The metaphorical hell in my opinion is worst because you don’t even know it’s happening
You sometimes fall so deep inside that internal cave
Running in circles
Desperately trying to escape the voices
Telling you’re not good enough
You run gripping the walls
Hoping someone will come along to save you
But the sad reality is nobody can save you from you but you
The more you try to run the deeper you travel inside the cave
Lost forever
Tormented by your own voice
Sadly Only few escape this cave
The ones who escape
Use the light they had to find inside to come back for the others
I almost didn’t escape
It took everything inside of me to find a way even when all hope felt like it was lost
The walls that surrounded me
Felt suffocating
Each day
All I had to rely on was my hands
As they guided me along the dark
It took surrendering to the darkness
Completely
And accepting
The power that surrounded me
When I finally did that
Something shifted inside of me internally
Somehow I was able to see a small light
Without hesitation I followed the light
Until I no longer was surrounded by darkness
I escaped that cave with my life
But everything in me says
I have to go back
And bring others with me
As what good is it to have escaped knowing
That someone else is trapped ?
For the 2nd time I had to do the scariest thing
And trust that going back inside
The cave was my destiny and
There was no way I was going to leave other people behind