Yesterday in a toastmaster’s meeting, the speaker was talking about new year’s resolutions and goals. She was encouraging us, reaching deep to instpire.<\/p>\n
“Imagine this: What would it look like if you were to be a hero a year from now?”<\/p>\n
I know she was trying for us to do positive reinforcement. But for me…”hero’…It is a tired word.<\/p>\n
HEROIC is an adjective that seems always to be followed by “Sacrifice”<\/p>\n
Billy, Don’t be a Hero. I’m not wanting to be a hero. You know, maybe I’m retiring from being a hero.<\/p>\n
Not for my current crop of associates.<\/p>\n
I was telling chris about this. He said “If you throw yourself on the grenade and nobody knows it’s a grenade, what does it get you?”<\/p>\n
Exactly.<\/p>\n
I’m tired of the dirty knees and grenade absorption. All the others who’ve seen me throw myself on the ground just keep thinking I’m an idiot.<\/p>\n
Fight your own grenades. i don’t want it anymore.<\/p>\n
But if I don’t want to be a hero, what then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday in a toastmaster’s meeting, the speaker was talking about new year’s resolutions and goals. She was encouraging us, reaching deep to instpire. “Imagine this: What would it look like if you were to be a hero a year from … Continue reading