Don’t Meet Your Heroes.
5 min readFeb 8, 2024
Even If They Are Turtles.
Photo by the author, Gulf of Mexico 2024.
The old adage, “Don’t meet your heroes, because they’re sure to disappoint you,” holds true even if your hero experience is silently swimming with an old sea turtle. In this case, though, the turtle didn’t disappoint me — I think I disappointed the turtle.
