Each society and each individual usually explores only a tiny fraction of their horizon of possibility.*
Yuval Noah Harari

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to new adventure, you are called to new horizons.**
Joseph Campbell

The realisation that our lives are stories
comprising a number of significant elements that
we may arrange in a number of different ways, makes it possible
for our experience of life to significantly alter:
Whether we like it or not,
the lives we live are stories.
Our lives have a beginning, middle, and end,
and inside those three acts we play many roles.^

We may have tried to alter our lives before, and
this has not been our experience –
A different role, a different place –
But what is needed is to look beneath the surface of this story:
The secret to diagnosing a problem with a broken scene
lies in its subtext.^^

To find our deepest joy meets the world’s
greatest need, wrapped in
talents, environments and values, is to
open new horizons:
Being more vulnerable,
we reach out, we extend our hands
and your hearts to others who are wounded.
It is only at such a pass that we grow into a larger sense
of what life is about and act, therefore,
out of a deeper and nobler nature.*^

If the story doesn’t work,
We can go to the subtext again,
rewrite it, begin over;
There are no rules as to how many time we can do this, and
eventually our new horizon will open:
Pathfinding is at the core of creating
with significance,
and finding the path is largely the work of
finding non-paths
until the path is evident.^*

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm
For your soul sense the world that awaits you.⁺

*Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens;
**Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss;
^Donald Miller’s Hero On a Mission;
^^Robert McKee‘s newsletter: The Secret to Fixing Broken Scenes;
*^Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life;
^*Seth Godin’s The Song of Significance;
⁺John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: For a New Beginning.