Joseph Campbell

I started to watch the rebroadcast of Joseph Campbell's six hour interview with Bill Moyers from the late 80s last night. Campbell talked about the hero story being essentially a death and resurrection story, one that every human being goes through at birth and at adulthood.

I think a problem that I have personally is that as shitty as my life has been (which is really nothing since I've been blessed all my life) I haven't experienced this death and resurrection into adulthood. I haven't put away childish things yet, and neither have many people in my generation.

Here I am at 32 and I can still waste and entire day playing video games, yet I'm too damned afraid to write a resume and a cover letter begging someone to hire me. I'm a sponge on my family and the few friends that I have left. I'm afraid I won't grow up until my wife gets sick of me and kicks me out of the house.