Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, philosopher and lecturer whose most famous maxim was "Follow your bliss" and who I think still speaks to us all through his work on mythology.
One of the first Campbell quotes that struck me as profound was his reference to any number of mythological insights that: Where you stumble, there is your treasure.
Nothing that happens to anyone or that anyone ever does is without meaning or without consequence and the lesson to be learnt from mythology is that one needs to be open to deeper meaning and deeper insights to realise that apart from the scraped knee and bruised ego (literal or figurative) when and where you stumble fits into a greater scheme of things beyond the reach of our conscious understanding and the limited usefulness of the "real".
Evolution doesn't make mistakes. Where you are at any moment is precisely where you are supposed to be. The challenge lies in figuring out why and to what end and then to smile.
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