Role models, idols, and "heroes" do they apply to

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Me I have no role models or heroes nor do I idolize anyone. I find it to be vapidity and prosaic. I just set goals for myself of what I wanted out of myself or what I should do. I feel sorry for people who have to change themselves or are criticized usually famous people because their children lack personality so they copy what they see and their parents may not like the life style they're trying to copy. The end result is people like Brittany Spears going insane due to being harshly judged.

Especially in today's society where internet and pop culture is basically 99% of a persons life. Most people look up news on what their favorite celebrity had for dinner than to pay attention to stuff like Monsanto March or the U.S. idiots of the congress, political parties and other government divisions basically getting away with filling their own needs only.

I've taught myself that no matter how much I like a persons work I'd never worship them because of it, they're still a human being and for all I know they could be a jerk in privacy. To be honest if you're gonna worship someone it should be someone that did a major contribution to the progression of society like inventors and revolutionist. Which brings me to the point where most people know an entire celebrity's/iconic person's biography yet they don't know anything about people like Dennis Ritchie.

I don't tend to care too much about famous people's private lives.

I like watching basketball games but I don't regard the players as anything more then people that are really good at what they do. I respect them but I don't worship the ground they walk on.

My heroes are Indiana Jones (not Harrison Ford, I didn't particularly care for him as Han Solo) and Batman.

Real people will always let you down sooner or later, because they're human.

Come to think of it, I was a little disappointed in Indy for letting himself get trapped in Temple of Doom and for putting up with that whiny Kate Capshaw. And again for fathering a douche like Shiela LePouf in Crystal Skull.

But Batman is always cool - even if the actors who portray him are usually dorks.

My mom is my hero, if that counts.

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I do, but only fictional characters. Real people are too flawed. One of my role models is Data from Star Trek: TNG. Another is Temperance Brennan from Bones.

Mick Avory is my role model because he's everything that my mum isn't. My mum's a poor example of a role model with the way that she verbally abused and intimidated me, trying to raise the autism out of me. What may seem vapid and prosaic to one person might be the answer for another person. I promised myself that I will never become as cold and callous as my mother and due to my gender issues, a sensitive male would be a better option than my mum who's very much like Roseanne Arnold. I guess that I'm too vapid or prosaic to get the point anyways. I've always been slow and naive anyways.

I was just starting to feel welcome here again, too.

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A role model or hero doesn't have to be a celebrity, and it doesn't have to be for no reason other than fame and popularity. My "role model" (am I getting a little old for that?) is just someone very bright who's been doing the work I want to doing for a long time. This person's traits are a good picture of what's required for it, and a comfort in a world where people tend to be unpleasant and disinterested.

There have been certain people in my life who have influenced me.

There are lots of instances where I could do with a role model, as at times I am unsure as to what is socially acceptable & what isn't.
If I had the example of someone I trusted I could copy what they do.

As I don't, I have to make do & do the best I can.

I apologize for my knee jerk reaction last night. It took me a couple of years to dig myself out of a dark hole of anger from 2007-2009. Having a role model keeps me from going back into that hole. There was a time when I thought it was spineless to have a role model. That all changed a month ago in 2009. There were no role models or heroes in my life, so I had to look elsewhere for something that would do and work for me at the same time.

i'm my own idiot sometimes.

I don't generally idolize celebrities. I get obsessions with people, but not celebrities. Just ordinary people I meet in my day to day life, and I start to be like the person I'm most obsessed with to the point where I start doing something what I wouldn't normally do, like wear a skirt if the person I'm obsessed with wears a skirt, even though I have always been stubborn that I wouldn't want to be seen dead in a skirt. I am not a lesbian by the way, I just get competitively obsessed with women, not sexually obsessed.

I do love Rick Mayal and Adrian Edmundson, but just through their acting. I don't know what they're like in real life.

Everyone I see as a role model is dead. So that already shows you that I am not exactly in the majority here. Edgar Allan Poe was a drunk and ended up dead, due to rabies though thank god. Ernest Hemmingway, dude shot himself with a shotgun, also dead. H.P. Lovecraft is the only normal one.

Jean Luc Picard. Brilliant example of how I would like to conduct myself. I usually end up acting more like Data without the positronic brain - dazed and confused.