Admiration

Some people asked me who my idol was, who I admired most in life...and i could see in their eyes the expectation of some famous and familiar name.
Like those artists, we all know, and as though I do admire some famous artists and their public appearances, they are not the people I most admire in my life.
You see.. I've learned to admire the simple things, the simple people, the people most of us don't give credit to but still, they are the people who keep us alive.
I admire people in my life, who are a part of my everyday routine and who stay with me trough out my worse times and my best ones. I admire those people around me that know me better than i know myself and who keep me ... me.
We all at some point in life have gone around some wrong path and done things we wish we hadn't done and during those times we wished we had someone to talk to. I went through two different dark paths at two different stages in my life, the first time I turned to a famous person for help, through her music i healed myself and moved forward, and you could say I do admire that person. The second time around i consider myself much luckier because I could count on someone close to me, and not through to music, but through conversation and love, I healed. I think we can admire a lot of people and different ones in our life but in the end, we all just admire the people we most love and wish we could someday become. Admiration without love is just...idolization.

S.P. da Silva