Essay On Hero's Journey

Never Give in Never Back Down
Joseph Campbell, a scholar, summarized that we all have a journey yet to be traveled in our lives, we just need to wait for our call to adventure. He studied ancient mythology and came up with The Hero’s Journey. We are all heroes one way or another in this world. We all have a purpose in life,whether it’s good or bad. Joseph Campbell helped me determine that I too, am a hero. At first, I thought that my life was just simply a “repetition” on a daily basis, but as I reflect on special moments in my life, I see that there is a journey written among the lines of my life. My life’s journey as a student is much like Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey because I met my teachers who would soon become my mentors, had to deal with many conflicts in school, and in the end I earned special rewards that would make me see life in a different perspective.
Starting middle school wasn’t easy. It was like traveling to a foreign place and not knowing how to communicate with people. I was worried that my teachers were going to be super strict, and that I wasn’t going to make friends. But I was wrong, as I started school my teachers helped me when I didn’t comprehend something. I would go to them when I needed advice, and when I had a problem and needed to talk to someone, they would be there. My teachers became my mentors, teaching me everything they knew and so much more. The most important thing I learned was to persevere, to rise up whenever I fell down, to learn from my mistakes, and to never surrender. Like any other person, I had many conflicts in school. Part of my journey is to have problems to solve. During the school year, I had many problems to deal with. My grades were starting to decrease and I was being bullied. That was a point in my life when I almost gave up, when I almost forgot the lessons I was taught by my mentors, and most importantly,when I almost forgot who I was. Bullying was the cause of my low grades. This continued for many weeks until I truly discovered myself. I had enough courage and bravery to stand up for myself and put an end to it. Facing my problems required courage, and to stand up for what I believed in. Life isn’t easy, and there are clearly no shortcuts to it, we …show more content…
My life’s journey is much like Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s journey because I met my mentors, had to deal with many problems, and I earned a special reward in the end. Many people think that life is like a videogame, going on a mission and saving the girl. I on the other hand view life differently, life is not a videogame, life’s more than that. We need to open our eyes and wake up. We need to stop playing and actually pay attention to the world in which we live in because we all have a journey that we may not be aware of. There are many things that make each of our journeys special. We may find obstacles along the way, but life wouldn’t be interesting without obstacles, and surely without problems there wouldn’t be a lesson that we learn from. We are all heroes, there may be conflicts in our journeys, but in the end we earn a special reward. I believe that we all fall down sometimes, we just have to get back