They're people we meet in life, we look up to them, we respect them for being who we believe them to be.
They epitomize something important to us, they are the ideal of what we wish to be.
Therein lies our mistake. We've put an ordinary human being on a
pedestal and we don't see the warts, wrinkles, hairy moles, bad moods,
foul language, and a myriad of other human failings.
It is devastating then when our idols tumble from those pedestals,
being revealed for the garden variety human beings they always were.
We're then hurt, sad, disappointed, and crushed. If our idols aren't
the gods we pictured them to be then what are we? We who modeled
ourselves after our idols?
We're still ourselves, still trying to become the best people we can
be. And our idols? They're healing from that tumble off the pedestal
and are now better able to teach us because we're no longer worshiping
them as the gods they're not.
2 comments:
Well said.
Thank you lil, it was a good lesson learned too.
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