Monday, November 19, 2007

A sad realization: the death of a role model

It happens in many peoples' lives. Certainly at childhood and adolescent levels, when you realize the person/s who you have looked up to for so long may not be the great people you've made them out to be. When you realize your dad may not be the personification of everything a father should be. When you realize your mom may not be able to do everything in the world.
This post however is not about family, but about someone I've more or less admired professionally for a few years. I neglect to describe them or what they do cus that'd be an instant make-out so we'll just call him Bill.

Bill's work has inspired me throughout the years in an area of my life that I enjoy. Before two years ago however I didn't know him personally. That changed when I had the honor of meeting him and liming etc. Since then I haven't gotten much closer to him but we can talk and lime normal, no scene. I've occasionally witnessed things over these couple years that made me question a bit how much I truly did admire his personality. Before I even met him I saw something that had this same effect, yet that was years and years ago so I figured he must have grown up by now.

I guess he didn't really. Recently an incident happened that really became the culmination of every little incident I saw where I thought 'wow.. he's a little bitch dred' or the like. Something happened in public and he handled things like a real prima donna. Diva extra-ordinnaire. He didn't have to, but this was his nature. After this first reaction, the upsetting situation was returned to normal but still he acted like a spoiled baby. This really made me see his true nature. It was the death of role model for me and the birth of another asshole I happen to know.

perhaps this is why I don't have any other role models really (except one other guy who actually is a FRIEND). Because I can't put anyone up on an admiration pedestal like that without knowing their true nature and usually when I find that out, it always contains a let down. I don't expect perfection but I can't condone certain things that go against my beliefs.

and that's that.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Such a conundrum. You know your heroes are gonna fall if you get to know them well enough but how can you pass up the chance? I now have the privilege of liming with writers whose articles I used to cut out when I was school and for some of them it's like, wow, he's just some guy dread. We're all just some guy or chick I guess. The cool thing about getting to know your heroes though is that you get the benefit of their experience, so suck up the lessons as much as you and make a mentor out of them professionally if not personally

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