According to Joseph Campbell, we are all heroes every single day. I fully agree with this statement. I believe that this is true because every day we go through an adventure whether we know it or not. Unless a person just stays home all day laying in their bed, that would make Joseph Campbell statement false. Every single day in our lives is similar to a heroic journey that we go through to accomplish our problems.
On Saturday I felt like I had encountered a heroic journey by the way my mom gave me the “call to adventure”. She had said I better go do the grocery shopping while she was away at work. I totally denied and refused because I would waste time and I was too lazy to even bother. She then said that she would give me a reward if I do what she had asked me to. I then realized that this would be similar to my English course of the “Heroic Journey “. Finally, I agreed only because of the reward that my mother had promised.
Since I just woke up I was too tired to stand up and write the things down that she needed so I tried memorizing them. I then went to the supermarket which was new to me because I had never been there before. I felt out of place and it took me a long time to accomplish buying all the stuff my mom asked me to. When I got home I called my mom to tell her that I got the job done. She repeated all the things that she wanted me to buy and I realized that I forgot to buy the milk! That meant that I would have to go all the way back to the supermarket to buy just a gallon of milk. She felt disappointed in me and hung up. As I was on my way back I realized that if I wasn’t lazy and actually gotten up and written the things down I wouldn’t have to been doing this job twice.
After I got back home for the second time I felt accomplished with what I have done. By the time my mom got home she looked and checked if everything was there. I asked about my reward quick so I could leave because I thought it was going to be money. She looked at me, laughed and gave me a hug. She considered that to be a reward for me. I got angry at her and left to the park to cool down. When I got home she said that if I had not gotten the groceries then I wouldn’t have had food to eat the next day. She then gave me 20 dollars for doing her that favor. I felt happy because I got money out of it.
I felt like a hero because I saved my mom the trouble of getting the groceries. She already works hard so I did the favor she asked me to do. It might not be much of a heroic journey but at the end of that day I was my mom’s hero.
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