People say that it is best to never meet your idols. I disagree with this. I can attempt to live up to an ideal all I want, but at some point it's going to kill me if I don't see if the person who I'm basing this ideal on is actually worthy of my admiration. I had the fortune of meeting one of my favorite indie-ish actors who is also a comic artist, and I must say, WORTH IT! I feel like I choose, pretty good heros, because I don't overestimate them. I suppose that I don't choose a person as a hero, I chose the pieces that I like the best. Jeff Hardy's wrestling persona of righteousness and no fear. Take the leap while you can, fly as you fall. His brother, Matt's persona of careful calculation, before you get in the ring, have a strategy ready. CM Punk's do what you wan't, but don't expect me to follow attitude. Terrance Zdunich's patience, persistence, and skewed look at society, which has recently paid off again (I'll put it in a post, I promise). Tamora Pierce's character Alanna who did whatever it took to get through, kept her nose to the grindstone and made no excuses for her failures. Even the song Rise is a source of inspiration. Now I know that you can't meet a song, but meeting the band, and hearing their inspirations can only widen my view of it, not narrow it. Even if they meant something totally different than what I got from it when they put the song together, knowing that isn't going to cause me to find it any less inspirational.
I suppose I mean that I feel that it is important to know what it is that inspires you about your heros, so that look can still look up to those qualities and maybe find them in a better role model if the original inspiration turns out to be a cad. I find that the most intense lessons, I learned by talking directly with the people who taught them to me.
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