Re:My Heroes
by pasbesoin on Thursday October 20, 2011 @02:42PM
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I don't want to overstate this, and it's been brought up before, but I find it interesting to consider the matter of heroes we don't personally know versus those we do.
I don't know whether this has changed, over recent decades. But it seems that we have so much "media attention", these days, that many things we at least ascribe as being very significant to us are actually at great remove from our personal lives.
I don't mean this by way of judgment, but by way of reflection. And introspection: Who has really influenced me, and am I acknowledging -- to myself, or to them -- their roles in my life? Am I using such understanding to make my own decisions and in my own actions?
Taking this a bit further -- perhaps too far and potentially getting a bit judgmental: Am I trying to be on the billboard, or the organization that decides whether the billboard is a good idea for the neighborhood?
I don't know whether this has changed, over recent decades. But it seems that we have so much "media attention", these days, that many things we at least ascribe as being very significant to us are actually at great remove from our personal lives.
I don't mean this by way of judgment, but by way of reflection. And introspection: Who has really influenced me, and am I acknowledging -- to myself, or to them -- their roles in my life? Am I using such understanding to make my own decisions and in my own actions?
Taking this a bit further -- perhaps too far and potentially getting a bit judgmental: Am I trying to be on the billboard, or the organization that decides whether the billboard is a good idea for the neighborhood?