I Want to Play a Game
You’re in a group of your best friends.
You can only talk about times you’ve failed.
What do you say?
Now,
You’re in a group of your total strangers.
You can only talk about times you’ve failed.
What do you say?
You probably say different things in each group, but what does everyone in both groups have in common?
Everyone has failed.
-Our best friends and strangers on the street.
-Our mentors.
-Our parents.
-For lack of a better term, “normal people.”
And heroes are born from normal people who failed.
Heroes don’t save the day when it’s going just fine. Things need to be really fucked up for the hero to emerge. The world has to be in peril before someone inside of you steps up and says “no” through action.
Other people are not your heroes. The hero was the part of them (or you) who was called forth during a time of need. The hero is the character each person becomes when they become more than they are in the face of failure.
The hero is you.
