Searching for ideals

Something I wrote in my diary about a year back -

...I think there lies our search for God and idealism. We always want to rely on someone/something better than us, a perfect person, a Superman. For little ones, their father is God. The ideal being, and they rely on their dad - they really believe their father can do anything, and its mostly true for their small world. We look for support to people who are stronger than us, are not shaken by circumstances, dont have the weakness we find so troubling in ourself. And we strive to be them. And thus the struggle to be strong, to be free. And if, by some chance, we discover that our ideal person has his/her own faults, they are no longer ideal. And we look for other support. We find much of it in great men of history and they become the guiding light for our actions. God is the best concept which provides that ideal.

But we have to find strength within us, plug our own holes, be our own masters - thats the only solution.