However painful, mistake-riddled, dirty and moth-eaten life might feel, start by owning where you’re at and acknowledging the choices that helped get you there. Rather than wait for life to inevitably test us with hardships, we can save a lot of time and pain by learning to be our own hero, in good times as well as bad. I understood that we don’t actually know how strong we are until we face up to challenges. I suspected being your own hero might have something to do with championing yourself, developing your strengths and being kinder and braver.īut it wasn’t until I hit my rock bottom in my thirties - a marriage breakup, the loss of my new love to cancer, and all the attendant nightmares, that a deeper understanding of being the hero of my own life dawned on me. I started to wonder about life as a personal hero’s journey for every one of us. I wrote the question down and dwelt on it. I don’t know who, the context or why those words had been left there, but they hit me:Īre you going to be the hero of your own life or are you going to leave that role for someone else? One afternoon I walked into a room at uni and someone from a previous class had left a few words on the whiteboard.
However at the time, I only had a vague idea of what might be at the heart of my pain and even less idea how to pull myself out of it.Įpiphanies can come in strange ways. I felt mildly ashamed all the time, like everyone who looked at me could see straight through me because I lacked substance. I was trying to fill a hole in my heart that felt like it went right through my body and out the other side.
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