Stan Lee- A true legend

“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people’s lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you’re able to entertain people, you’re doing a good thing.”

Those are the words by Stanley Martin Lieber (his original name), the most loved man of the youth and children across the globe.

The quote above has a lot to learn from. The society we live in today isn’t much different from the one he grew up in. Even today we have ideal professions. If today someone tells me that he/she wants to become a comic writer, I would be surprised.

The times haven’t changed much, which makes it important for us to take inspiration from the man himself. He disrupted the whole comic industry with one thing that we all possess. That is imagination.

Most of all superheroes that we admire today took birth in his imagination. Pursuing imagination as a career seems a bit absurd. But if this man would not have taken the not-so-ideal path then I only wonder who would have produced the kind of entertainment that he did.

I drive a ton of inspiration from him whenever I do something that isn’t considered normal. I tell myself that maybe it’s that unexplored path that contains the secret to my success.

Success doesn’t have a given path to follow. One may find it in unexpected places. Like Stan Lee found it in his comics. The respect and love his comics have earned him will last him centuries even after his death.

Look for where your success lies. Don’t look to be in the ideal profession. Do what you love the most and be the best at it. That’s how simple yet hard success is in reality.

-ChoubeySahab