I searched and searched and searched this week for something that was reported as "news" and really wasn't. I was not coming up with anything. It didn't help that I've been ill half the week and haven't been online to do any real searching. But, the Internet seldom disappoints, and today, I found my story.
There is probably nothing more I can't stand than those who applaud themselves. I mean, there is a huge difference between someone else honoring you for something well done and you honoring yourself for being yourself. That is completely different - in my opinion anyway. Its arrogant, assumptive and lacks class.
I read today, that in Thal, Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger opened up his very own museum - featuring noneother than himself. According to the article (I've pasted the link below), there is a huge bronze statue of him outside his childhood home. Inside the home is a museum, complete with his first barbell, life sized mannequins of himself as "The Terminator", the bed he slept on as a child and his Governor's Desk, along with some family photos of better days.
I know there are plenty of "icons" that have these kinds of things set up all around the world - but most are in memory of so and so, not in celebration of me and, oh yeah, me.
The article states that Arnold just wants everyone to know their dreams can come true as long as they "stay hungry" and he hoped his life, as displayed in the museum, would be a model for young people. Are you kidding me? I can think of so many other people I'd rather have my sons look up to, that are far better than Mr. Universe. I'm not knocking the guy for his mistakes. God knows I've made my own and plenty of them. However, I would rather my children learn these life lessons from the meek and humble. Not the boastful and self-admiring.
I completely understand he came from small beginnings and made his way to stardome. I'm just not sure his self-made museum relays that message clearly enough, if at all.
To quote him: "My personal success has less to do with millions of dollars or with the headlines in the media that are not always positive and also not with being clapped on the shoulder by Barack Obama and other world names," he said. "Personal success is the result of determination, hard work and stubbornness."
Well, if his success had less to do with his millions of dollars or being clapped on the shoulder by Barack Obama and other world names, then why mention it? Does it matter then? Why be specific? Why not say, "I've been blessed in my personal success through God's grace and mercy and I am so very thankful for it all."?
But that's me.
If he wanted to encourage young people to "be all they can be", which I personally think is a fantastic idea, I think there were several other available avenues he could have successfully used. But, I guess that would have required him to terminate that universal size ego of his.
See Matthew 5:5.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44816119
Newsworthy? I don't think so.
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