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Your Life is Not a Hero's Journey

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Zane Berry

Or is it !! jk, but I narrativ-erize my life entirely too much and always have. I think it forces me into cycles where I inform my future off my my past, and what I think my failings are. Its a bad habit.

Antonio Farfán

The hero's journey tells us what kind of stories we like to listen, but has little to do with how life actually is. Looking forward to the conclusion, you succeeded in showing us the lie we all live in, let us see what wait for us outside of the cave.

Davy Elm

In college I made a study about people’s perception of heroism. I went around the different disciplines and asked students about who they thought was or meant to be a hero. Although I was kind of expecting it I was really surprised when people would tell me how medicine makes them Marvel-like characters, musicians created similar scenarios, criminal justice bragged about it. From almost everyone I interviewed I got the same answer, “I am doing this because I want to be a hero”. What’s curious is how every one of them fit as a secondary character in each other’s story but lived their own as a mythical telling. P.D. When I visited the philosophy building I came across a young woman who told me no one was meant to be a hero because no one is really here for a purpose. Not even her, she told me. I saw the depth in her eyes and the pride in her words and well, the joke tells itself

Aesthetics

You're on a next level. These aren't essays anymore. These are theses, studies, art itself.

Zeljko Mesin

Can you please share from which movie or show is scene at 9:16 mark? Landscape is from my country I just visited recently and intersted which movie/show was filmed there.

Michael Ilasi

@Aesthetics. Next level - though somewhat accurate - doesn't even begin to define what these essays are. But that is a good starting place - ;)