#themonomyth

Preconditions for this debate - You agree that the journey begins when you engage in life, life matters and that there are somethings that you have control over and you should engage in them against all odds in the hope that life will improve.

 “Let’s start with defining faith. What’s faith?”

 “Faith is the confidence in hope.”

 “Well then what’s hope?”

 “Hope is wanting something to occur. Both have no guarantees.”

 “So to go on this journey we have to have the faith that we can do it?”

 “Yes, faith that against all odds we can make life better than what it currently is.”

 “Define life?

 “All experienced consciousness.”

 “So we’re engaging in this consciousness in the faith that we can improve it?”

 “Yes.”

 “And that it’s a journey.”

 “Why a journey?”

 “Well a journey means you’re starting from one place and moving towards a particular destination. While also you’re standing up against adversity and that takes courage. That’s why it’s called the Hero’s journey because Hero’s are courageous in the face of adversity.”

 “So adversity is almost certain?”

 “Yes that’s true but how do we want to engage in adversity?”

 “With courage.”

 “Yes with courage, to voluntarily choose to face adversity when it appears and having faith and hope that by doing our best we’ll overcome it.”

 “It’d be so much easier without adversity to just go straight from A to B?”

 “Yes it would but when we struggle with adversity that’s where all the lessons are, that’s where incremental progress lies. So lets adopt a mindset to actively seek adversity, knowing that the quicker you fail at something, the quicker you eliminate all the obstacles that might prevent you from achieving the goal.”

 “That way we’re still voluntarily engaging even with adversity.”

 “Yes and also understanding that in the pursuit of a goal, achieving the Hero’s Journey, much of us that existed before the journey might have left us.”

 “Why might that happen?”

 “Because what you thought might’ve been true could turn out to be false or untrue and something else needs to take it’s place better than before. Like a snake shedding it’s old skin for a new and better one. We might also get injured along the way but having the faith that’ll we’ll be stronger than before. I’ll leave you with that for now, all the rest is just detail, detail.”

In Summation - Have Courage by actively seek adversity knowing that the quicker you fail at something, the quicker you might eliminate the obstacles that prevent you from achieving the goal. And have faith and hope that you can and will overcome them.

That’s all for now folks,

Preconditions for this debate - You have consciousness and you can think. 

  “It doesn’t begin at all. “ 

  “Right there, in that moment (It doesn’t begin at all) you’re engaging in this discussion, this discussion is part of life. So the moment you engage with life, the journey begins.”

 “Yeah but I didn’t choose to engage.” 

 “Name all the things that don’t matter to you?” 

 “[Insert all things that don’t matter to you]” 

 “Well did you engage in any of them in the last week, month or year?” 

 “Well no.” 

 “Why not?” 

 “Because they don’t interest me.” 

 "So the things that don't interest you or bother you, don't matter to you?"

 "Exactly!"

 "Exactly. Things that don’t matter to us we don’t engage in and therefore the things that do matter to us we do engage in. They're all part of life. "

 "Ok so, life matters. We're going to engage with it but why?'

 "Well if we do nothing to change anything we should expect nothing to change, that sounds fair doesn't it?"

 "Well no because we don't have control over everything and even if we do engage, things might still not work out for the better or we could make things worse?"

 "Very true, we don't have control over everything but that doesn't mean we don't have control over anything, therefore we do have control over somethings. Let's discuss what those obstacles might be but those somethings we do have control over we should engage in because even the tiniest one could change our life for the better."

 “Ok so but which ones are for the better?”

 “We don’t know which ones and that’s why we have to take a leap of faith.”

 “That seems like a pretty big risk considering that things might not get better or may turn out worse.”

 “True but what’s our other choice to do nothing? We know that we can’t expect anything to change unless we’re willing to go out and change it. You have to voluntarily engage with life in the hope that it will improve, even if it’s just  incrementally because you can build on that.”

In Summation - The Hero’s journey begins with voluntarily engaging in life. Life matters. We have control over somethings and we should engage in them because they could lead us to a better life, even if just incrementally. Start doing things in a way that you believe will make life better because you can, have faith and courage that you can.

TO BE CONTINUED

I hope this helps, it sure did for me.