Character of the Viewer: On Tiger Woods and Other Supposed "Roll Models"

Character of the Viewer: On Tiger Woods and Other Supposed "Roll Models"

Some of us want to write, to create and craft characters that will inspire.

Some of us want to be one who inspires and leads. Well, it is better to inspire than to lead, and it is better to allow the viewer of you or of your works to discover for themselves what about you or your well-crafted works gives them inspiration.

So....

Don't worry about "roll models" letting you or another you love down, because the true nature of a roll model is to APPEAR to be what you BELIEVE them to be, not what they ACTUALLY are every moment of the many seconds of a long, real life.

Drug addition, sexual infidelity, etcetera ALL MEAN NOTHING, the only thing that truly means anything is if your roll model MADE YOU BE or FEEL BETTER at a particular time.

• Made you try again.
  
• Made you succeed, as they did.
  
• Made you improve yourself within and without.

That is all a roll model owes you. Nothing more.

--Neale Sourna