Necessarily the hero.

There’s a saying in Kafka apparently that says- “People are necessarily the heroes of their own imagination”. I haven’t read the book, but when I heard someone say it, I found it striking.

“People are necessarily the heroes of their own imagination”

We will paint ourselves in a positive light in our memories regardless of our actions. In our story, our faults are easily overcome at the end, like in the movies people still root for the hero because of some inherent good. In the concentric circles of one’s existence, as a lone soul and as a unit of an entire universe, we are the hero because we need to be. Not once do we consider ourselves villains in our imagination.

That blows my mind!!