• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I interpret it the way it’s intended but it’s a pretty annoying phrase to me.

    Never meet my heroes? I’ve already been disillusioned by the people I know closely in real life, nobody is perfect and it would have been naive to assume some celebrity is. I have never “modelled my life on someone” or aspired to take their niche in the celebrity ecosystem, because thst woild be unoriginal.

    I think that’s a more productive lesson you can derive from it - aim to be a best version of yourself instead of a presented/catered version of someone else

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      4 days ago

      the best version of yourself is a cater version of yourself. wtf are you talking about?

      everyone is trying to keep up the delusion they don’t poop.

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        3 days ago

        instead of a presented/catered version of someone else

        of someone else.

        That is to say, when you pick a ‘target,’ you should be looking at what’s right and achievable in your own personal devslopment instead of emulating one specific popular person, who might in fact have a very cultivated (catered) public image, or have undergone historical revisionism to artificially create a folk hero.

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      4 days ago

      Also, a very literal interpretation is also correct - famous people don’t like meeting “plebs” unless they’ve mentally prepared for it