It’s OK To Be the Hero in Your Own Life Even If Others Don’t Approve

I realize now this is how I’m going to be found.

“But, I wish I wasn’t this way. I wish I could just not think the way I do. Go back to how it was before. I have felt upset with myself for wanting to do this. For wanting to change and leave it all behind”, I said today to my therapist.

He said, “Maybe I’m biased, but this is the most beautiful thing that could happen. It’s a good thing.”

And, the best part? I believed him.

Recently I read about the Heroic Journey in Falling Upward by Richard Rohr. Apparently he’s not the only one that talks about the Heroic Journey either. It’s a theme in our Disney movies, it’s based in mythology, and to some extent we are always going through heroic journeys in life.

But, the big ones? The BIG BIG BIG Heroic Journeys? Those are the ones that change your life. Shift your perspective forever, and without sounding too cliche — make you a different person.

I wrote down the basics of what the heroic journey is in my journal when I first started giving this some thought.

These are my interpretations, and I’m sure someone can spell it out more eloquently, but here’s what I…