Personal Narrative: A Hero's Journey

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“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before” speaks William Shatner at the beginning of each episode of the original Star Trek television series. Why, even in this fictional world, would humans risk their lives to explore areas unknown? Why did Columbus sail the seas to discover new land? Why build fantastic feats of architecture? Why was the Gold Rush so tempting? Why do men and women strive to find love? Why learn to cook? Why? Humans strive for new heights because “survival is insufficient”. In Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven, the Traveling Symphony travel …show more content…
Plagued with excessive anxiety and a brain that likes to fight my common sense- sometimes survival is difficult. I was worried that as I embarked on my college adventure I would focus so solely on survival that I would forget to actually live. I wanted to avoid structuring my time to a point where I eliminated all spontaneity. So far, I have survived, but that is not all I have done. I have attended a play, participated in a religious group, made the acquaintances of many of my peers. While I am a fan of Star Trek, I had never heard this particular quote. The words were threaded seamlessly into Mandel’s novel, but they were also incredibly relatable. “Survival is insufficient” is a motto that I hope to remember throughout the rest of my college career.
There is something about humanity that is special. That special attribute is why we are different from chickens or ants or fish. Give it a name, or do not give it a name; humans are extraordinary beyond their capacity for survival. We cook to create flavor profiles. We write to indulged the imagination. We sing to create an experience. We create movies to entertain or even to move people. Humans are more than eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing. For a species who truly stands above the rest, survival is simply
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