Letting The Hero Die

This is a wonderful teaching. For me, it will take a daily practice to stop needing to be the hero in my own story. It seems to be a sort of going down into the depth or self, as Rumi says,"The root of the root of who you are." I am in the last fourth of my life. I want to learn these lessons, so that I don't expect life to serve me. So that I don't get more and more lonely.

I am 61 so am in the last quarter of my life as I believe to be. I think, focusing on the truth of we are here for a purpose (soul contract) to affect others as we are affected as well, in many unknown ways. Our journey in life is intertwined with others. We try to be the best version of ourselves as we can but with humility and we try to keep ego at bay. "We are walking each other home" as Ram Das says, in this existence. And when the time comes, we leave as though "taking off a tight shoe". My mother is failing and I am trying to be a support for her and my father at this time. I try to put my ego aside that I am not a hero swooping in from another state where I live to come in and rescue the situation. I try to tread lightly to allow their autonomy and not to take over but to assist and support where I can. It's a difficult line.