What Myth Are You Living?

Year end is a powerful time for a man to take stock, review his year, assess his progress and reimagine his future. It’s also a prime time for a man to look closely at the story or narrative he is living.

All men, whether aware of it or not, tell themselves a story about who they are, what their role is, what their life means and what they hope to accomplish. We could call this our personal myth.

Most men imagine themselves as living a banal, shallow and meaningless myth and define themselves in the weakest and most uninspired ways possible. For example:

I am a 50 year old husband and father of 2.
I work as a teacher making $60,000.
I’m a tax payer and a citizen of Canada.
I take a yearly vacation, I have a mortgage and am saving for retirement……

This is what I call ‘the myth of degeneracy’ (doesn’t even deserve capitals), the story that each man is fed by society, free of any nutrients such as inspiration, depth or meaning. In short, men are taught to define themselves in ways that keep them small, weak and dimensionless, like cardboard cutouts of cartoon characters without significance or purpose…

I say, fuck that.

As men we should rewrite our myths in brash and colorful heroic terms, full of struggle, self-imposed trials and soulful tribulations.

We should fill our lives with battles against enemies, wars against ideologies and engage in missions that test our character and our grit with the possibility of failure or triumph.

We as men should weave together images of deep symbology and rituals of blood and ash and bone into our daily existences, while wrestling with the dark forces that seek to denigrate, degrade and distract us as we press toward greater and greater versions of ourselves.

As men we should be defining ourselves in ways that enlarge our hearts and set fire to our minds, reimagining ourselves as the main character of a great epic myth that will be spoken of long after our passing from this pathetic shitty world.

If you as a man imagine yourself as a mere citizen, a tax payer or even as simply a man, I suggest you steer clear of me with that weak myth of degeneracy, lest you find yourself at the end of my battle-axe as I push forward my own Myth of Self-Domination….