We humans are strange and complex creatures, and yet we are also incredibly simple.
We love, feel, invent, create, and philosophise, but we also seem programmed to seek out and follow a hero.
Heroes are, ultimately, mythical figures who embody everything we perceive as good, powerful, and inimical to our fears and adversaries. But that powerful saviour and protector is darkness itself; an interwoven paradox of right and wrong, light and dark.
The strange thing about a hero is that it is irrelevant whether you love or hate the character – the hero has your attention.
This aspiration to emulate greatness has been the rise and downfall of many.
We seem to engage in a self-regulating, society-induced balancing act as we ride the roller coaster of life.
We strive to better ourselves in relation to our ‘incultured’ society, and in turn, our inculturation and social structure destroys the old and adapts to our achievements, like a phoenix constantly rising from the ashes.
This week’s challenge:
Who is your hero, your role model?
Who do you look up to and admire?
Which of their qualities to you want to emulate, and why?
What’s in it for you?
Imagine for a moment that you – yes, you – were that person, that hero you so admire.
How would that feel?
What emotion do you feel in the moment of allowing yourself to be your own hero?
That insecurity, doubt, pride or joy is either holding you back or is the path for you to follow to your own greatness.
Observe, change, adapt and go out into the world as your own hero.
