This week Brian and I were talking through some personal choices I will need to make in the coming months. I’m having trouble deciding what to do – all of the options are fabulous. Poor, unfortunate me, right? Having to choose between fabulous and fabulous is a tough row to hoe.
Brian has a way of staring at me very directly as if to say, “seriously, this is what you’re worried about?” Then I start laughing, fall over to my side on the couch, and shake my head in wonder. If all else fails, I never have to worry about knowing how to entertain myself with my whirling, churning mind.
“Let me get a little Joseph Campbell on you,” Brian said. “The hero’s journey involves choices, and the nature of those choices must be difficult. Anyone can choose between a fantastic choice and a terrible choice. A hero, or heroine, has to make tough choices. That’s the nature of the hero’s journey.”
I sat with that thought for a while, turning it over and over in my mind. “I guess you’re right,” I conceded. “I can’t go wrong, can I?”
“No. May you always have a life where you have to choose between wonderful options,” Brian said.
“Let’s hope so, Brian,” I said.
“Forget hope. Let’s just make it happen.”
I laughed. “Yes. Let’s.”
The image above is not my own. It can be found here.
Christa Avampato 
