Spiderman 2 and the Hero Complex
2007-May-04, Friday 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ssurgulHuh.
I finally made another connection this evening, in my preparation work for watching Spidey 3 tonight.
One of the things that I hadn't realized about those who constantly strive to be 'on the outside', to 'live as a hero', to ... well to be better than who and what they are, what they're even remotely capable of.
They want the recognition of the sacrifice. They want to understand that it's actually worth it. They want someone to be able to point to and say, beyond ANY doubt, that they made a significant difference in someone's life. But then, of course, the human mind being what it is, even having that one person won't matter; after all, there's always reason to doubt or deny that reward. And in that is both their doom and their pleasure. After all, that means they'll always be driven to strive for more and better. But then, they'll never find any sort of positives no matter how many times they might normally have found that fulfillment.
It's time to accept that sometimes your dreams exceed your abilities, real and imagined. And to realize that by denying yourself the pleasure of your success, you're denying the rest of us the pleasure of knowing who you truly are. You're not just the sum of your acts.
I finally made another connection this evening, in my preparation work for watching Spidey 3 tonight.
One of the things that I hadn't realized about those who constantly strive to be 'on the outside', to 'live as a hero', to ... well to be better than who and what they are, what they're even remotely capable of.
They want the recognition of the sacrifice. They want to understand that it's actually worth it. They want someone to be able to point to and say, beyond ANY doubt, that they made a significant difference in someone's life. But then, of course, the human mind being what it is, even having that one person won't matter; after all, there's always reason to doubt or deny that reward. And in that is both their doom and their pleasure. After all, that means they'll always be driven to strive for more and better. But then, they'll never find any sort of positives no matter how many times they might normally have found that fulfillment.
It's time to accept that sometimes your dreams exceed your abilities, real and imagined. And to realize that by denying yourself the pleasure of your success, you're denying the rest of us the pleasure of knowing who you truly are. You're not just the sum of your acts.