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Quote: “As much as our culture talks about individual effort and self improvement, deep down, he argues, we revere the naturals. We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. Why not? To me that is so much more amazing.”
Question: Some questions that arose in my mind when I read this excerpt were why do people think this way? I know I use to think this way as well about the stars the live among us. These people for the most part have lived lives just like ours, so why do we think so highly of them? It is a question I often wonder about when I see people on the tv screen.
Comment: Whenever you hear people talk about their experience meeting “stars” they often talk about how they’re surprised that they’re a normal person just like us. As a matter of fact, they are. Of course there are certain people born into fame, and thus have never truly experienced a normal life, and I feel bad for those few. However, for those who we look up to, are normal people like us, who made the right choices in their life to become famous. So even though it’s great that they have made a difference in a lot of people’s life, we shouldn’t treat them as if they’re superheroes who aren’t from this world.
