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As you probably already know, next up is episode 2 of my stories vs. reality series. This part will carry the somewhat challenging title "Your life is not a hero's journey", and is where I will critically assess the idea of the hero's journey as a concept by which to, implicitly or explicitly, live our own lives. 

I will first present a history of the heroic adventure, starting all the way back with the primal heroes in old myths, up until the stories of today in which anyone can be a hero, and anything can be an adventure. I will discuss what it really means to think of life as an adventure, explore the merits of it, as well as the negatives, both for the individual as well as for society as a whole. 

As this series really is a deep dive, I wanted to avoid using the Hero's Journey to communicate platitudes about how we can all be our own heroes. Instead, I want to really shake the concept to its foundations, and challenge it to see where it breaks down. Hopefully then when I do try to reconstruct the pieces in part 3, I will be able to do so with some refinement.