What does it mean being a “fan” of someone or something? Most celebrities have a “fanclub”. What a funny and strange club to have. A group of people who do not know or understand you, but keep mindlessly showering their adulation on you, following your movements etc., because of their own mental projections onto you. In fact if most “fans” got closer, got to know and perhaps lived with the celebrities they adulated, they would realise they are normal human beings, struggling with the same challenges and working out their destinies like anyone else.
My take is – stop hero worshiping. Say no to it. If you have to Hero Worship anyone, worship yourself, love yourself, honour yourself. By “yourself”, I do not mean the self serving egoic melodramatic side of your personality. But more the inner being, the one that makes you breathe, the flow of what makes you aware of the universe, the underlying consciousness or awakening in your heart. Any other form of hero worship, simply gives your inner power away; by honouring Yourself you create your own inner pillar, around which you can build your life.
Dennis Taraporewala 