thoughtful posts are generally not my thing. but considering I’m supposed to be studying for an end-semester in two days and facebook has got stale, I have to write something. and at a complete loss for any other sort of inspiration, I’m going to have to think to write.
We all have people who inspire us, and these at different levels. there are those you only hear about on the news and you can’t help think wow. [honestly, I don’t feel you on this one – I hardly admire anyone I don’t know personally – I just wrote it to sound well-researched or something.] and then there are those you know so well, whose struggles and victories have been close to your heart, and they come out letting you know for sure that God put bits of himself in us.
but I’m thinking of those in between. the people you don’t know so well, but for whom you’ve created an identity and character you could admire. these are the people who make you feel you can do better. you know them, so they’re real. but you don’t know them, so they’re better. and so “better” is real. it can happen.
until you discover they’re human.
they’re not perfect. they’re not awesome. they’re not untouchable. scrap the pun, it wasn’t intended. this is serious.
I REALLY need some source of inspiration. sigh.
2 comments:
NAMASTE grasshopper!
You should listen to Alain de Botton talk about modern art (literature being a constituant component) is overly vague and abstract and what lessons are there to be learnt from religious art - that is very specific and open about the message they convey... ;-)
Discovering you're mentors are 'human' is probably the best thing that could happen, IMO. Knowing that people I look up to can struggle with the same things that I do makes them more 'real' to me, rather than just idealistic illusion. Watching them rise above that, gives me hope that I too can do the same.
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