In Jonathon Flaum's article, Finding Your Howl, he tells a story about a wolf. The wolf was one of only fourteen red wolves left in existence, and when he was let into the wild he knew how to do everything, except for howl. He was in captivity. Instead of being afraid, however, and running back to captivity, he decides to go out and find his howl, no matter how scary it may be. At the end of the story, the wolf gets shot by a hunter, but when he dies and escapes his imprisonment of life, he goes to the center of the earth where is able to howl, and he is born again.
I believe that the message of this story is that it can be almost terrifying when you are trying to find out who you are in the world, but once you do it is well worth it. You will go through difficult things in life, but you cannot let that stop you from being who you are and "finding your howl."
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