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nuxvomica

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10. Your despair is part of a process

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 01:43 AM

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Placing you at a juncture where you can either give into the world's corruption or fight against it. This is part of the age-old hero's journey, a pattern of growth that humans probably instinctively follow as it has been the subject of storytelling since at least the Epic of Gilgamesh. The stories are needed because the call to heroism is not always answered and requires instruction, especially at the point of despair when there is the least incentive to answer it. When you become the hero, the one who protects innocence from corruption, your success is not assured, the stories only teach us it is possible, but your life will have meaning, which is more than can be said of the lives of certain billionaires who have rejected the call.

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in an attempt to soothe my soul (when i was a teenager) my mother used to say [View all] orleans Thursday OP

Definitely don't delete. Enjoyed reading and get it. Silent Type Thursday #1

'It's always darkest before the dawn.' Dad elleng Thursday #2

I used to hear the same things from mother SheltieLover Thursday #3

question: in the fullness of your adult experience of life, (and lessons) stopdiggin Thursday #4

oh yes, of course i understand what she was trying to say orleans Yesterday #5

and, as I said - you had EVERY right in the world .... stopdiggin Yesterday #12

Oh my dear orleans . . . CaliforniaPeggy Yesterday #6

Sometimes for no understandable reason StarryNite Yesterday #7

yes. nt orleans Yesterday #8

So many good reminders here. Hope22 Yesterday #9

thank you for your lovely reply nt orleans Yesterday #11

Your despair is part of a process nuxvomica Yesterday #10

Every year in December I re-read a book by Terry Pratchett called Hogfather... Hekate Yesterday #13

that's beautiful and very profound, hekate. thank you for that. nt orleans Yesterday #18

just put Hogfather on hold at library. there is a DVD of it as well. PUt it on hold too. Amaryllis Yesterday #21

I also watch the movie once a year... Hekate 16 hrs ago #22

"everything happens for a reason"--I think that's horseshit. raccoon Yesterday #14

I dunno. no_hypocrisy Yesterday #15

There is always a chain of events which amount to a "cause" of WHY something happened, but... Martin Eden Yesterday #16

God's will, everything happens for a reason, karma is a bitch, etc. ThreeNoSeep Yesterday #17

cause and effect - yes, i get that. orleans Yesterday #19

Thank you for starting this discussion. yellow dahlia Yesterday #20