you know, when I was your age...

“day 17: your idol and why you look up to them”

It’s kind of dangerous to “idolize” or even “look up to” any one person – people being people, they are fallible, and it’s hard not to let their eventual and inevitable failings affect you in some way if you do happen to idolize that one person. Much better to draw inspiration from a variety of people, whether it’s the lady who just had a lung transplant going into the yoga room and working just as hard as anyone else, your grandparents for walking 6 miles to and from school uphill each way in a snowstorm, a writer whose hit novel came out of a NaNoWriMo challenge, or that cool friend of yours who decides they want to do something to change their life and *actually go out and does it* with a minimum of fuss. Easier to focus only on the things that motivate you to take your own actions and ignore the bad stuff that way.