There are some people one simply can't hate. Ok forget that, there are some people one can't help liking. I did not believe that possible till I personally got to know people like that. And as the country and the world goes hysterical after Obama I face those same questions again.
I don't know what it is about such people. I suspect it is not one single quality but a host of varied ones. Each different person hangs on to a different aspect and finds his own personal God in that person. It is amusing and remarkable at the same time, this united mass-spread devotion, affection, reverence for one being and not even because he has achieved something great or affected society yet, but simply for the person he is, for his ideals, his conduct.
Earlier I used to stand in the by lane and watch this inexplicable mass worship and smile to myself, perplexed. I never understood it.
But whatever it is, it makes the world seem a better place.
It reaffirms our faith in humanity, in the belief that atleast people worship righteousness.
To me it speaks of the innate admiration we all have for something true, honest, for something pure. We may not be 'Howard Roarks' but atleast we look up to someone who we think comes close. This is not to say that I have actually come across any Roarks or that Obama is untainted. No one's perfect and we all know that, in fact everyone's definition of perfect would also be different.
Anyway, without getting side tracked(although I wonder if there is a track here!) so many times the projected greatness of a person has a lot to do with the projection besides the origin. When such highly adored people fail to live up to those aspirations that others have for them, it crumbles the ideals of many. And it's not the fault of the up held. Many a time the crown is unwanted, the admiation unasked for and the expectations unjustified. So the unwilling hero ends up dissappointing people who wrongly marked in him quality he didn't possess.
But I think in the end it doesn't really matter, people need their heroes, it gives them hope, it gives them faith, we all need someone to look up to, someone to admire, people to put on those pedestals we make. And being so massively loved at so mind boggling a scale couldn't be bad! :)
I still don't have any answers though, neither does anyone I ask. They all say well he has this quality you know, you can't help liking him!
I don't know what it is about such people. I suspect it is not one single quality but a host of varied ones. Each different person hangs on to a different aspect and finds his own personal God in that person. It is amusing and remarkable at the same time, this united mass-spread devotion, affection, reverence for one being and not even because he has achieved something great or affected society yet, but simply for the person he is, for his ideals, his conduct.
Earlier I used to stand in the by lane and watch this inexplicable mass worship and smile to myself, perplexed. I never understood it.
But whatever it is, it makes the world seem a better place.
It reaffirms our faith in humanity, in the belief that atleast people worship righteousness.
To me it speaks of the innate admiration we all have for something true, honest, for something pure. We may not be 'Howard Roarks' but atleast we look up to someone who we think comes close. This is not to say that I have actually come across any Roarks or that Obama is untainted. No one's perfect and we all know that, in fact everyone's definition of perfect would also be different.
Anyway, without getting side tracked(although I wonder if there is a track here!) so many times the projected greatness of a person has a lot to do with the projection besides the origin. When such highly adored people fail to live up to those aspirations that others have for them, it crumbles the ideals of many. And it's not the fault of the up held. Many a time the crown is unwanted, the admiation unasked for and the expectations unjustified. So the unwilling hero ends up dissappointing people who wrongly marked in him quality he didn't possess.
But I think in the end it doesn't really matter, people need their heroes, it gives them hope, it gives them faith, we all need someone to look up to, someone to admire, people to put on those pedestals we make. And being so massively loved at so mind boggling a scale couldn't be bad! :)
I still don't have any answers though, neither does anyone I ask. They all say well he has this quality you know, you can't help liking him!
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