Who Is My Ideal Kind Of A Person?

So, the other day, I was just going through my English textbook and I was in desperate search of something that remotely resembled literature. 

You might ask, “Did you find anything that had the faintest trace of Shakespeare, Tennyson or Wordsworth?”

My answer: Heck, I didn’t even get anything that remotely resembled Chetan Bhagat.

You see, my textbook is a compilation of articles written on the Reader’s Digest or the Times Of India. As poems, it contains translation of Marathi poems which would have sounded much more interesting had they been left off in their native language.

This is the literature that we have. What a sad life.

However, despite of its flaws, the articles in my textbook are brimming with wisdom and some of the poems are really nice.

One such poem is “You May Be The Person I’m Looking For”.

What is this poem about?

This poem is basically a description of an idealistic kind of person – a person that the poet deeply admires.

And somehow, this poem got me thinking:

Who IS an ideal person, anyway? What kind of virtuous qualities should he/she have?

After a lot of thinking, I kind of came up with an answer:

According to me, an ideal person should be someone who is passionate. My ideal kind of person should do everything – be it doing her job or be it simply brushing his teeth –  with tremendous amount of zeal and passion. You know, she should immerse in the job she’s doing and try to give it their best shot.

If she fails once, she shouldn’t be disheartened and she definitely shouldn’t abandon her job completely. Instead, she should take her failure as a lesson and work harder, so as to be better.

Yeah, it basically means: Archie likes gritty, hardworking people.

My ideal kind of person should be someone who can communicate with any kind of a person well. She should be someone who voices out her thoughts and should be someone who’s assertive, not authoritative.

My ideal kind of person should be someone who has a good heart. No, I’m not asking for someone who is like Mother Teresa but I’d love my ideal kind of person to be someone who treats everyone equally and who does not hurt anyone intentionally. My ideal kind of person should be unbiased – no religious differentiation, no caste differentiation, nothing.

Lastly, I’d love my ideal kind of a person to be someone who makes mistakes but she learns from them and tries to be a better-developed individual. She shouldn’t be someone who thinks what she does is absolutely correct and she definitely shouldn’t have a “my-way-or-the-highway” attitude.

In conclusion, I realize that such kind of a person would be very, very hard to find and it would be all the more harder to become such a person.

But it doesn’t hurt to try, does it?