From a young age, we’re conditioned to look at certain people and things in a larger-than-life way.
These are the people we hope to become. Some are driven to succeed because of the people they looked up to, while many more fall short of their dreams. Sometimes heroes themselves “fail us.”
Is it even realistic for an adult to have a hero, or is it something that should be reserved for youth?
Heroes are the topic of this week’s episode of Men in Gorilla Suits.
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We begin by chatting about who our earliest heroes were, and then jump to whether or not parents or other relatives ever held hero status in our lives. After that, we talk about how important heroes were to us when we were younger — and why that was.
We list off our heroes from childhood before discussing whether or not heroes are important to us today. Maybe we no longer have heroes — just people we admire on some levels. We talk about that, and then move on to why the deaths of people we may have never met, but still admire, can affect us as though we were close to them. Also: find out if we’d ever want to be somebody’s hero.
Sometimes heroes “fail us.” We discuss why some people are stung when they see a flaw in someone they looked up to, and why some people will go to great lengths to defend the actions of a hero-done-wrong.
The “real life hero” (police, soldiers, firefighters, etc.) are often positioned as having more merit than imaginary heroes. We chat about why that might be, and wrap it all up with how our views of heroes has changed over the years…and how new generations will define what constitutes a hero.
If there’s anybody you look up to (or even dislike who’s liked by many), feel free to talk about it in the comments.
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