Likewise, as we discover unhealthy patterns and actions, we can learn from these and avoid them in the future. Telling our own stories also puts us in touch with the myths that surround us. The fallacy of myths is that they are often taken to be untrue. It simply does not matter. Myths are our ways of looking at the cosmos to understand how it works and how we relate to all other things.
Positive myths are healthy.
They remind us that all the things that we see around us are merely tips of extremely huge icebergs. We remember our parents, siblings or friends, but we realize through telling our stories that they are complex and interesting individuals with a wealth of feelings, histories, talents and shared experiences. To individuals who may have no myths, or who may have negative myths, these beloved people are merely icons walking around in a video game- like existence. The tip of the iceberg is all that they can see. Valuable life ways, constantly threatened by a quickly changing world, can be preserved through the telling of our own tales.