How Idolizing Hurts
There have been people throughout my life that I have really, really looked up to. Over the past few years I have figured out that every one of them has let me down. MAYBE THAT'S WRONG! Here we go. Maybe, without knowing it, I have made them an idol. Someone is so nice or smart or caring that I figure that they can do no wrong. I try to emulate them. I start thinking thoughts like "what would so-and-so do if they were in my situation." I take this little bit of knowledge that I have of them and....I.....get it wrong. I build them up to a place in which they don't exist. I don't look up to them as much as I look up to my idea of them . The problem happens when my idea of that person clashes with the actual person . Then I am hurt and angry. "Why would this person let me down?" Have they actually let me down or have I built them up to a non-human level and set them up as an idol? Is this how pornography rea...