Who Do You Admire Most and Why

Hahahaha well, my answer doesn't exactly jive with this crowd, so to speak, but what the heck, let's give it a go.

I often find that I actually feel really sorry for most of the people that I admire.

My college teacher whom I admired for his strength and blunt honesty died of esophageal cancer. Walt Disney and Miyamoto are amazing people who are unparallelled in their craft and creativity, and yet they have no worthy successors, etc.

Because of this, the only people whom I admire who I don't feel sorry for are fictional characters, because their stories - usually - end up being happy in some way or another.

Of those, the winner would be Kyoko Mogami from Skip Beat.

She is entirely naive of the world, and has a thought process which, while very logical, is COMPLETELY not based on reality. She is talented, overly-humble, and willing to do anything (moral) to achieve her goal, which is simply just to be better at her trade. She actively fights her demons (most of which she makes up) every second of every day, and is constantly working to improve herself. Not only that, but she has an almost-constantly-positive attitude, and has the ability to fit into different personalities at will (albeit through her acting).

This, however, is why I admire her: she may not realize it, but she is free. She is free to be completely, 100% honest, because she doesn't know any better. She is free to be herself, because her crazy sense of the world doesn't register that she's abnormal; she has no idea. She is who she is, and is completely oblivious to everything else.

And what's more, everyone loves her BECAUSE of these traits. Granted, this is fiction, but still... to be able to live, function, and succeed in a world where you can be that honest as a celebrity, no less, AND still be accepted...

That's why I admire her. She is who she is, and she is accepted for it.

It's such a simple concept, but in its own way, so complex. ^_^;

You have asked a question that is not asked very often and when asked brings up numerous thoughts. I could write down a number of people who seem to have character and are honorable people and seem to be successful. I will list one who I admire more than all others. His name is "Jesus" He lived many years ago but what he taught is still appropriate today. For example put others needs before your own( our world would be a better place if more of us did that. He also taught us that we all make mistakes but we can become better if we never give up and keep improving. When possible pay attention to people around us and when needed reach out a helping hand and "lighten their load" I could go on more but will stop with these examples. I hope we all take time to "give back" as we go along this path called "life" and I especially hope everyone has success and happiness along the way as well.

I appreciate all the posts here and why you admire the people you named. I also admire many of these. So instead of giving you a list of people I admire most, I want to give a name of someone I am admiring right now. Jimmy Kimmel! I admire him for producing Lie Witness News because it reveals the facade so many people try to live behind. Sometimes I feel a little sorry for people who are being videoed being dishonest, but that's their choice now, isn't it? I actually do some reviews of Lie Witness News on my blog post so my attention to Kimmel's work is fairly recent.

I admire the fictional character in the movie 'Kick Ass'. His name is Dave Lizewski. Just an ordinary high school kid who had enough guts to put himself 'out there' in his quest to become a super hero.

As far as real people go I've learned to be careful who you admire; they're probably more screwed up than you think!