on Meeting Your Heroes

Over the years, we’ve seen so many people fall from grace. Small-town heroes to big-time stars; It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. If and when you fuck up, it’s over. Instant cancellation.

But maybe our heroes were never deserving of such admiration? Maybe we should stop putting these figures on pedestals. At least that way, when they do fall, it won’t be such a spectacular whirlwind of a shit show.

Matt Rife shares a story about meeting his hero.