The Refusal to Return – Blog #16

When the hero has completed his task he can now return home. The hero though might feel that he will no longer be accepted back at home. Because of the trials he had faced he feels that his home will not understand him now.

I have experienced this same feeling when I returned from being active duty military. My experiences were completely different from those of my friends who were in college. I felt that when I would come home I was more mature than my friends, and how I acted would cause conflict with how my friends were.

I also felt that my parents wouldn’t understand what I had done. My perceptions about the world changed, and I felt that might cause some conflict with the way my parents viewed the world. It was a stressful time, thinking nobody would understand my journey.

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