I love a good hero's journey

The good guy beats the bad guy

Lots of action and adventure

Sometimes a love interest
thrown in
to make things
interesting.

I always think of Luke Skywalker

And how his journey 

(the point of it)

Was to battle the bad guys 

And blow up 

The Death Star

But, really the hero’s journey is about 

who Luke becomes 

along the way

How he learns new things

Travels to far off places

Gets trapped in some stinky situations

With the feeling that the walls 

(sometimes)

are closing in on him.

He reaches out for help

makes new friends
with the unlikeliest of people

He does impossible things

And discovers an inner strength

That he didn’t realize he had

A strength to do hard things

He comes out the other side

A changed person

a bit battered

But more grown up

He realizes he can do alot on his own

Just using the courage
he has inside

An ordinary person doing

Extraordinary things

The real hero’s journey is not about beating the bad guy

Its about learning who you are 

As a person.

That despite the struggles

And hardships

The hero will make it to the 

end okay

And sometimes more than
just a little okay.