How Mythology Cures Depression
The battle-tested, time-honoured road to happiness
It is the irreconcilables that make the contours of our lives.
The tensions between things that cannot, and will not come together.
Amicable living is for the weak-hearted. The strong endure conflict, tension, and intensity because a true life cannot avoid unendurable paradoxes.
The more fully we live, the more challenging the task. The more we give ourselves to life, the more it demands of us.
There are only two choices: to remain a coward, or to dive in, and accept the fate of a warrior.
Most hero stories are tragedies. Every dragon's lair is littered with the bones of thousands who came before. That is what success takes — if it were easy, everyone would do it.
The hall of immortals is for very few, and every one of them risked it all. But no coward left a mark on history, except by causing disaster with weakness, denial, and irresponsibility.
Both directions tempt us, and it is up to us to choose. Would you live, even for a day, rather than hide for a thousand years?
Only glory leads to happiness.
