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Day Four: Ten Influential People or role models (people you don’t know!!)
People. Not books, so authors are out, but people I consider role models and were never actually part of my life.
*crickets*
Well, when you come right down to it, I never saw anyone in the public eye that I really wanted to pattern my life after. Never had anyone that I looked at [or heard] and thought “wow, I want to be just like that!” Oh sometimes I would indulge in wishful thinking, wishing that I had this person’s talent or that person’s ability to articulate or write or maybe another person’s mental wattage. Sure, I got interested -- I read about them and avidly sought mention of them [which meant newspapers, radio or TV because I am THAT old], “following” them as we say in these days of social media! But accept them as a role model? I never got all fired up and figured if said person could attain degrees or prominence or wealth or whatever, than I could too. I might be in awe of their genius, wit and/or wisdom, or envy their KSA [knowledge, skill, ability], or wish that I could bum some talent and/or luck, but I never was inspired to want to take someone as my muse.
If I had to rattle off names of people that I consider an “influence” [as always in no particular order]:
President John F Kennedy
Napoleon Bonaparte
Isaac Asimov
The 14th Dahlia Llama
Albert Einstein
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Er, maybe Miss Lillian, Jimmy Carter’s mother? Or Mother Theresa?
*crickets*
Guess I have always been too caught up in being me.
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