Deliver Me From Nowhere
Twentieth century psychoanalyst Carl Jung believed that each person lived out myths, archetypal stories, across their lives. Key to individuation—reaching your highest potential—is recognizing which myth you are acting out. When my dad passed away from cancer, I had recently turned twenty years old. That is, statistically speaking, a very young age to lose a parent. Nevertheless, his death fit the natural order. You watch your parents pass, and you carry the fire forward. Such is the way of life. Although I didn’t articulate it to myself in these exact terms at the time, I knew what Jung taught and realized that the myth I was carrying out was that of Horus and Osiris, Perseus and Zeus, even Pinocchio and Geppetto: pulling my father from the deep. Carrying on his virtues, shedding his vices. Understanding that this was my myth to live out, and acting as such, led me to write " The Hyacinth Girl ," one of my first short stories I think is worth reading. Esoteric as it may be...
