Losing a pee-wee game and going on the Hero’s Journey as a result

CharlieBearCharlieBear Mod
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I’m watching The Mighty Ducks (who even knows how many times I have seen it at this point) and in the beginning, the main character in the movie misses a game-winning shot as a pee-wee hockey player. He then goes on to be successful defense attorney that becomes obsessed with winning…before being assigned to community service for drunk driving.

Anyone here ever go through something similar? Perhaps you had a boss, like him, that sent him on a quest to become a better person to help them get over the trauma of letting their community down by losing a sporting match as a child?

I assume for most of us, this isn’t the case. So if not, let’s just pretend you did and we can try to figure out which hero’s journey you are referencing from popular media 😅

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  • pmvinespmvines

    No, but when I was a kid and was caught spraying graffiti on the walls behind a store the police made me repaint it. Does that count ?

  • CharlieBearCharlieBear Mod

    I was once the best swordsman among my group of friends, but then I fell in love with a girl in another town and left my friends behind. When I returned, none of them recognized me and didn’t believe I was who I said I was. I then had to regain their trust while stopping a man from tempting my son from joining his crew of marauder's. Tick tock.

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited October 2024

    Not a clue. Is it a real person?

  • CharlieBearCharlieBear Mod

    A real (fictional) person named Peter Banning 😅

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel

    Clever boy

  • TheFunCartelTheFunCartel
    edited October 2024

    I have an awesome boss! Why? I was out from work for several months due to a life altering surgery with unforeseen complications years ago. I became bored during recovery so I started making phone calls and answering e-mails for work until suddenly the emails stopped and no one was calling me. I called my boss’s assistant and said something’s wrong. She said no and I quote “Jim said to tell you he is paying you to get better, and he is not paying you to work right now.” That’s right, I received 100% of my pay for the months I was out and paid me a sizable year-end bonus as well. In addition they routed all emails and phone calls away from me so I would relax.

    There isn’t much I wouldn’t do for that man and the company. I can’t express how fortunate I am to have the best boss in the world for 20+ years. I know I make him a lot of money but I don’t feel that special. He did it again when I fell off a roof and was out for a few months—these incidents were on consecutive years.

    It motivated me to give him a little extra effort and made me feel like he had my back.

    I coached a girls tennis team for a year but it wasn't court appointed or even remotely related to my job, so I suppose Emilio Estevez won’t be playing me in a movie anytime soon.

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