Personal Mythos

Interesting concept: our stories are our way of explaining our existence, and to define what cannot be defined. (referring to personal stories we create about our lives, and our personas, and false selves.)

Thinking about this I realize this is so ingrained in who we are as humans. Centuries and centuries ago, we humans created stories about the natural world and universe around us to explain the inexplicable: storms, floods, lightning, stars, and constellations.

Is it because we have to know? Can we not have a question mark hanging, or is it really all about being scared of the unknown?

So how do we break away from this pattern? Is it even possible? Perhaps we have to embrace this as a part of our humanity, and find a more up to date way of integrating this aspect of ourselves. I don’t have a clue as to how to do that at this point. Would it require redefining or inserting a new mythos? If we identified our stories, then we might be able to insert another story (since that seems to be our M.O.), one that would flow well with the truth and reality of our situations. Does that make sense? Am I on the right track?