It is an interesting what we pay homage to
and what we put our faith into, to help us succeed.
It is a fantastic picture and many thanks to
the “Dutch Target” for posting this on his website, view the link below the
picture to have a look at more of his photos.
So what is a role model? A role model is
someone we look up to and it inspires us to do great things. It is often a member of our family, sportsmen,
film stars, someone successful in business and also Saints.
Families are there to support us and in
their only special way help sportsman from introducing us to a sport, taking us
to the ground to train and cleaning our kit. That is sometimes the reason why
we keep going to make them proud.
In the list I mentioned Saints; they are a
curious one as they are irrespectively linked with Christianity and
particularly the Catholic Church. Their exploits are arguably the first ever defined
role models.
They are people who did something in
history so profound that they were raised to a saint status for all to reverie
and pray to. That praying makes them an idol, so for example people would pray
to Saint Margaret of Anitoch[1] for a safe child birth or for success in archery it is Saint
Sebastian[2].
This doesn’t mean that people who are not
saints don’t get the similar treatment.
This is on the Gypsy Lane, Barnes and the location of
the death of front man Marc Bolan of the T-Rex[3].
People have travelled from all over the world to visit this site. To put
it another way they have taken a pilgrimage to this place to pay their
respects. Now Marc Bolan is not a saint but yet people must Idolise him in the same
way and inspire them to do great things. Don’t you think anyone who visited
here wanted to bash out a riff like T-Rex?
This is where role of saints and role model
becomes a grey area as they can be one of the same as they are used by people
to inspire them.
This use of a role model is influential and
they help us make decisions particularly if there is a common problem e.g I
want to be the number 1 archer in the world, now how did Brady Ellison go about
that? Well he asked his coach “I want to
be the best” Jenny meadows as admitted that Dame Kelly Holmes as her inspiration for that very reason[4]
Well when it comes to my role models, I
have already spoken about a few on here and this is my current list.
- Annabel Vernon, post 1 expands on that.
- Brady Ellison for the question he asked his coach “How do I be the best” It would my dream to be asked that.
- Naomi Faulkerd as although we never cross paths we were pitch against each other in postal competitions as juniors. She is now in the UK squad and me, well I am here J and because of our diverging paths I have often wondered “what if?” (addition 05/06/2013 she has just been selected as talent coach for the south, you never know our paths may yet cross[5])
But there are other things which help keep
our moral up and subsequently our performance and that is in the form of a
lucky mascot.
One of most famous has got to be the Simon
the cat on the HMS Amethyst the who “did his duty” in hunting rats, maintaining
moral and remained at her post, by the captains side , throughout the Yangtze engagement.
It is a truly heart warming story and she was awarded the Dickin Medal for
bravery [6]. He was a very lucky mascot indeed.
So something which isn’t a person, a role
model or a saint helped people in a dire situation. But it doesn’t have to be
living creature to keep you on track. This is the moment for truth, I am going
to regret putting this on the web, but this is my lucky mascot.
Yes it is a teddy; admittedly not this
specific one but one very much like it. Why you might ask?
Well it reminds me of a choice I made a
very long time ago. It wasn’t a particularly happy or easy choice, but it was
made and this teddy reminds me of that.
Just by having it in the box reminds me of this and help keeps me on the
right path, however repetitive that path may sometimes feel.
It does sound crazy; it is at the end of
the day an inanimate object, which can be bought in a thousand different shops. Yet to me it is special and because of that
it will forever help me to succeed.
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