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My own personal heroes
It might come as a surprise, scandalous and maybe even in bad taste to learn that growing up I never had a hero, a person to look up to, to follow blindly and to worship the very ground that he or she walked on.
Hero, yes a regular, practical, functioning, down to earth, and importantly, an approachable hero with whom I could sit down talk and discuss all that which weighed and anchored deep in the abyss called my soul and my thoughts.
His dignity, grace, intelligence, and kindness was one of the saving graces of my teens and maybe one of the reasons that I did not tip over into the dark side of serious drugs and alcohol abuse.
Not once but several times, I sat with him under a tree in school and ate the food that he shared with me and those are memories that are seared in my soul along with a few others I will come to.
If my childhood and early life were rather abnormal, I guess my adulthood and the ensuing life has been more chaotic than abnormal.
But, I found an anchor in my own personal hero that is my wife and a few friends.
A hero is not someone who flies, jumps, climbs walls or beats up crowds of evil people but a soul who is heroic even in normal situations and even in the most chaotic situations.
If from a ticking time bomb, I have been transformed into a bomb with a long fuse and soon hopefully a bomb that is a dud, then all that credit goes to my wife Geetha and a few friends whom I consider more than that.
Along with my wife Geetha, my friends Venket and Sanjay have taught me so much and instilled in me so much that cannot be put down in words or in any other expression.
Rather than wax and wane about life and stuff, they have taught me so much by simply being themselves and by just going about their life with quiet dignity and discipline.
Research has shown that when people are asked to name their own personal heroes, the first individuals who often come to mind are parents and caretakers. All of us owe whatever success we've had in life to the people who were there for us when we were young, vulnerable, and developing. When we recognize the great sacrifices that these nurturers and caretakers have made for us, we're likely to call them our heroes.
It is during our youth that we most need good, healthy adult role models who demonstrate exemplary behavior. But adults need heroic models as well. Heroes reveal to us the kinds of qualities we need to be in communion with others.
Life inevitably hands us personal setbacks and failings. Failed relationships, failed businesses, and health problems are common life experiences for us. Our research has shown that it is during these phases of great personal challenge in our lives that heroes are most likely inspire us to overcome whatever adversity we're facing. Heroes lift us up when we're personally in danger of falling down emotionally, physically, or spiritually.
Heroes and Gods are supposed to have feet of clay and sadly, I think that the only clay that is in their life is me and I say it with humor, candor, and honesty.
There are a few others, a very few others who I look up to for their courage and spirit in the face of great tragedy and adversity and sometimes marvel at their incredible strength and will to go on and achieve greatness and also live with immense class.
They cannot be named as they would not want to be named but they know who they are and how much they mean to me and also how I hero worship them and treasure their friendship.
My own personal heroes
It might come as a surprise, scandalous and maybe even in bad taste to learn that growing up I never had a hero, a person to look up to, to follow blindly and to worship the very ground that he or she walked on.
Hero, yes a regular, practical, functioning, down to earth, and importantly, an approachable hero with whom I could sit down talk and discuss all that which weighed and anchored deep in the abyss called my soul and my thoughts.
Strangely, funnily until I crossed over into adulthood in my proper twenties ( Snigger, chuckle and smirk), the only person I hero-worshipped and looked up to with reverence was my classmate Ram Seshadri and I still do and will continue to do until my last breath.
His dignity, grace, intelligence, and kindness was one of the saving graces of my teens and maybe one of the reasons that I did not tip over into the dark side of serious drugs and alcohol abuse.
Not once but several times, I sat with him under a tree in school and ate the food that he shared with me and those are memories that are seared in my soul along with a few others I will come to.
If my childhood and early life were rather abnormal, I guess my adulthood and the ensuing life has been more chaotic than abnormal.
But, I found an anchor in my own personal hero that is my wife and a few friends.
A hero is not someone who flies, jumps, climbs walls or beats up crowds of evil people but a soul who is heroic even in normal situations and even in the most chaotic situations.
If from a ticking time bomb, I have been transformed into a bomb with a long fuse and soon hopefully a bomb that is a dud, then all that credit goes to my wife Geetha and a few friends whom I consider more than that.
Along with my wife Geetha, my friends Venket and Sanjay have taught me so much and instilled in me so much that cannot be put down in words or in any other expression.
Rather than wax and wane about life and stuff, they have taught me so much by simply being themselves and by just going about their life with quiet dignity and discipline.
Research has shown that when people are asked to name their own personal heroes, the first individuals who often come to mind are parents and caretakers. All of us owe whatever success we've had in life to the people who were there for us when we were young, vulnerable, and developing. When we recognize the great sacrifices that these nurturers and caretakers have made for us, we're likely to call them our heroes.
It is during our youth that we most need good, healthy adult role models who demonstrate exemplary behavior. But adults need heroic models as well. Heroes reveal to us the kinds of qualities we need to be in communion with others.
Life inevitably hands us personal setbacks and failings. Failed relationships, failed businesses, and health problems are common life experiences for us. Our research has shown that it is during these phases of great personal challenge in our lives that heroes are most likely inspire us to overcome whatever adversity we're facing. Heroes lift us up when we're personally in danger of falling down emotionally, physically, or spiritually.
Heroes and Gods are supposed to have feet of clay and sadly, I think that the only clay that is in their life is me and I say it with humor, candor, and honesty.
There are a few others, a very few others who I look up to for their courage and spirit in the face of great tragedy and adversity and sometimes marvel at their incredible strength and will to go on and achieve greatness and also live with immense class.
They cannot be named as they would not want to be named but they know who they are and how much they mean to me and also how I hero worship them and treasure their friendship.
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