Meme: Hero or Crush?

[ihgreenman]

This is a meme that I've been thinking about for a while. The recent announcement of James Doohan's death kinda brought it to the forefront for me. I started thinking about this meme when recently I was asked about crushes, and I really didn't have a good answer. (I had some small crushes growing up, but not really in the sense that they were

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[singingnettle]

I didn't do that meme either, because I simply don't have romantic interest in people I don't know personally. For me, desiring someone involves knowing them.

Yes, I can easily see you as a benign mad scientist. I think the politics and paperwork of being a career teacher would drive you insane, but I hope you get to satisfy that aspect of your personality in some way, sometime.

Re: hero/person to emulate

[wolfieboy]

I always aspired to be any of the number of protaganists in the various Heinlein teen novels. They had confidence, intelligence, and could speak well. It took me much longer than my teens to get there...