I think one of the best things in life is feeling great about oneself. Seeing yourself as a second to none, the best version of yourself, a perfectly made person by God, the creator. This feeling doesn't come easy in the mind of every man because we tend to belittle ourselves and forget how great we are no matter what others think.
If there is one popular lesson that many should have learned but still keep learning is that, we can not please everyone no matter how hard we try to. Even families turn against each other after so many sacrifices done. Anyone who dares to think they can make all the people around them love them, they are heading for heartbrokeness.
Growing up, I was made to love the hero in a movie no matter the process he uses to defeat the villain, I was just fixed on "The villain must lose in the end" and I failed to see all the lessons the villain was trying to teach the people and even myself (the viewer). But I grew older, I've been seeing movie villains in more positive light.
Of course, it is wrong to do what is not right and even very wrong when you know what you're doing is wrong. But in many cases, people have been misunderstood to be bad when actually they are good but their mindset didn't let them see it like that. And vice versa for bad people who are seen as good. We are different in our ways.
While it's great to save someone and become a hero to that person, you could also be the worse villain in another's story, which can make you less than the hero you think you are. It all goes down to what we think about ourselves because if we rely on people's thought about us, we would lose ourselves along the line and be nothing at all.
So if I must choose between the two, I'll be a villain and make people change their ways if it were possible. Giving corrections mean a lot for me, it means I am quite blameless in what I'm correcting another from doing and it also means someone might change for the better if he or she would actually take what I adviced seriously.
Being someone who would make another change for the better, I think that person is a Hero but I'm guessing the means one uses to make the changes might give the vibe of a villain. But having it in mind that nobody likes to be corrected and that we can't be loved by everyone, you'd see yourself in a better light, a hero to self.
I was going to give my post title "Villain to Many, Hero To Self" as I think even heroes have enemies and villains have fans. What I think matters most is what I am to myself, a hero or a villain and I'll say I am my own hero regardless of what others are saying about me. I've always seen people who make me better, as my heroes.
But these people have others seeing them in every bad light possible, they are villains who are my heroes. In essence, humans have both good and evil in them so thinking you're a hero to people is like denying that you have no evil in you which is a lie to self. Like in the movies, villains own the story until the time they die and we will all die someday so yeah, I'm a villain and a hero.
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