I think if anyone can catch the content of this new myth, it will have to be those who are awakened to the imaginative life. It will have to be the artists and poets, and certainly the dancers.*
Joseph Campbell

Just like you,
I tell myself a story as
I move through the things
my life contains and brings me to.

Just like you,
because this story both iterates my past and
informs my future, I can properly think of it
as my myth.

Just like you,
If it should leave me with some unrealised
potential or unrequited longing, if it should be
passionless or joyless, then I must reinvent.

Just like you, I should feed and free
my imagination rather than wait for
things “out there” to change,
Though, unlike you, this is different for each of us.

And that’s exciting.

*Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life; Joseph Campbell’s wife Jean Erdman was a dancer and choreographer.