No Such Thing As Noble

Some thoughts on living life as nobody’s hero.

Brian Brewington

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Photo by Miguel Ángel Hernández on Unsplash

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…

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Brian Brewington

Writing About the Human Condition, via My Thoughts, Observations, Experiences, and Opinions — Founder of Journal of Journeys and BRB INC ©