What if the best way to change your money story is to first become soul sick? Joe Versus The Volcano is a money story about soul sickness. Soul sickness is a condition brought on by selling out your authentic self for some gain. It can be money. It can be fame. It can be popularity. It can be security. Whatever it is, the price is too high. You can find more money stories on this site https://forum.getloanme.com/ forum about loans/money.
Your Authentic Self Becomes Soul Sick
Above all, soul sickness is a state of awareness. You become soul sick when you become aware that you have compromised your true self—your authentic self—for something that is not worth the tradeoff.
Patricia, played by Meg Ryan, is the character in the story with the most self-awareness. She is the one who calls herself soul sick.
Would You Sell Your Soul For The TweedleDee?
In Patricia’s case, she knows she is soul sick because she made a deal with her father. She had promised herself that she would never take anything from her father. But he offered her the one thing she wanted—the yacht, TweedleDee—and she made the deal. She would get the boat if she agreed to transport Joe to Waponi Woo. Patricia is soul sick because she recognizes that she had a price and would sell her soul for that price.
The Brain Cloud Diagnosis
In Joe Versus the Volcano, Patricia is both mentor and companion on Joe’s hero’s journey about his growing awareness that he too is soul sick because he had sold his soul for $300 per week.
At the beginning of the story, Joe is aware only that he is sick. He has some awareness that he is losing his sole/soul, but he has not yet figured out the connection between his health problems and the loss of his authentic self. He looks for answers from doctors and medical tests, but he is not yet aware that the real solution lies only within himself.
The starting point of Joe’s hero’s journey comes in the form of a medical diagnosis. Joe has a “brain cloud.” A brain cloud is a rare medical condition, which has no symptoms and no medical treatment, and will cause Joe’s brain to fail in six months.
This diagnosis is the interruption in Joe’s ordinary world that begins his hero’s journey. For the first time, Joe becomes aware of the price he has paid to earn $300 each week. He realizes that he has sold his soul to work in a miserable job, doing work with no value, with despicable people, in working conditions that rob people of their health. With this first experience of soul sickness, Joe quits the job.
Three Life Choices To Change Your Life
The three women characters in the movie—each played by Meg Ryan—have all sold their souls, but have different levels of awareness and willingness to do anything about it.
DeeDee, who is also stuck in the same office as Joe, is sick, but not yet soul sick. She has no apparent self-awareness that she is trading her authentic life for a paycheck and is too afraid to lose her job to change her life.
Patricia’s half-sister, Angelica, is also soul sick, because she is aware that she has traded her authentic self to live on her father’s money, but she is unwilling to do the one thing she knows would set her free from her soul sickness—leave Los Angeles and stop taking her father’s money.
Patricia is the only one who is willing to go on the hero’s journey with Joe. On the journey, she also heals her own soul sickness.
Soul Sick To Save Your Authentic Self
The deep truth of this money story is that the way to change your life is to first become soul sick, by seeing clearly how much it has cost to you to sell your soul for something that was not worth the price.
Soul sickness is not fun, but it seems to be a necessary step on your own hero’s journey to change your money story and set your authentic self free.
