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No Such Thing As Noble
Some thoughts on living life as nobody’s hero.
Hey, listen closely folks. I’m going to say some things and some of you are going to want or even need to hear them, for your benefit, not mine. It’s not often I go out of my way to help society as a whole at large, so take advantage while you can. You see, I learned better than to try and live life out as The Last Action Hero, from a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger movie when I was just a young tike trying to figure out what was what in this world. I learned you can’t save everyone and more importantly, not everyone is worth saving. To put it more plainly, bad people, or even villains if you will, want to be saved also. The thing about villains is, they rarely know they’re villains. They may even see their cause as just and worthy. The self-righteous are a silly bunch, what else can I say?
Clark Kent likely had the best of intentions but guess what, Louis Lane is out of his league and he knows it. If only, he could become, I don’t know — say a hero or even a — Superman? Perhaps then, they’d live happily ever after in a super house and have lots of super babies. Instead, Louis Lane probably just shoots down any and every advance Clark makes and ends up getting knocked up by her supervisor, Steve from the southside of Chicago. Steve might even leave before the baby is born, cause real life does be like that a lot, especially lately. Steves that leave are everywhere and don’t always announce such to the world before doing the thing that makes them the complete shitbags they are. Do yourself a favor, don’t risk it all for Steve, or anyone else you don’t know very well because the world may just be better off without them and may even need you one day. Don’t get excited, you still ain’t Superman bro. Simmer down before I tell your Louis Lane you’re a Steve that leaves.
I don’t know what the exact Oxford dictionary definition of noble is word for word but I know what the goddamn word means, okay?
It’s usually used by the smug and condescending types that know more than the rest of us, about all of the things. They use it in hopes of being perceived as better than you and I — but that doesn’t make them that, like at all.
They say it as they sip on their Chardonnay in their social circles and wait for everyone’s breath…
