Our heroes are complicated. Not in the sense that the ones we look up to are, for many reasons varied and not all the same for everyone. No, the complication I talk about are those heroes themselves. The saying is that there was only one perfect person and we are not Him! When we are young we look up to people we see doing things that are heroic or amazing, whether in sports or other areas the skill they have amazes us and causes us to look up at them as something to emulate. The problem is this person we look up to has dedicated their life to a skill which makes them able to do that one skill, it does not mean they have put that same kind of effort into any other area of their lives. As we get older the shine of those we look up to starts to get tarnished a bit, not always but regularly we find out that our heroes are just, well frankly, human. This can be a problem for us if we don’t have a good foundation of understanding. Musicians to sports legends who have died recently have all had some issue at some point which made us turn away from seeing them in the same way we did when they first caught our attention. I am not saying that we can’t be disappointed in those we look up to, and in some cases not having them be our hero is appropriate. I just think we need to remember that the people we look up to are talented but not perfect. Admire the skill, just don’t put on pedestals what we don’t want knocked off.