While in class I learned about Archetypes and read many articles on it and people’s views about archetypes. From the test I took to discover my archetype I found out that I am a Wanderer, and my second and third strongest archetypes are Orphan and Warrior. Most of the research I did on the wanderer it had me thinking a lot. Mainly from what I read it related to me and how I feel most of the time and then I read some negatives of being a wanderer and I didn’t like it. I read an article that said “As a wanderer, we’re looking for something different, a new answer. So we set out on a new course, away from our normal consolations, on a path into the unknown.”
The wanderer is a lone wolf, preferring isolation to gather his own thoughts. I chose this picture of Jacob from the movie twilight because it relates to one of the articles I read about a wanderer where they said that the wanderer is someone on a journey like a traveler, a prince, a knight seeking something like treasure, the goal, the holy grail that will lend meaning or fulfillment to life and remove its sense of disjointedness. The negative is that the wanderer is often labeled as a sad and lonely individual who is seeking an internal place of tranquility through travel in the external world. And Jacob was lonely and sad mainly because he wanted Bella that is where his internal place of tranquility would be. She would lend meaning or fulfillment to his life is she would be with him. A wanderer may also manifest as someone who never completes anything, or sees things through full cycle. The positive side of this energy is very rich, however, and can lead a person to explore other countries and traditions. In this instance the Wanderer learns that the journey itself empowers well at least that is what I read about the wanderer.
Some one that was both a Wanderer and an Orphan to me was Link from Zelda and for those of you who do not know what I’m talking about shame on you L.O.L.
If you don’t recognize the picture by now then let me just tell you, this is Link from a video game for Nintendo. The Legends of Zelda series for Nintendo Link was to me all my archetypes in one. He was and Orphan that became a Wanderer leading him to become a Warrior. He wandered all around his world and even through time to save his Princess the thing to me that was his meaning of living. She was his answer to everything, and I feel that I’m like Link in some ways because I felt lost and lonely at times but I got tired of it and began looking for my answers that I desperately wanted answered. So I went on this life long journey each and every day to find that one thing that I felt was missing in my life. During this journey of mine I became a warrior from fighting for my life so many times when I encountered danger. Through this voyage of mine I finally found what I was looking for and it was God and I found out that he was always with me but it took my long empowering journey to find that out
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