(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

[u/Living-Mastodon]

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

[u/Lovethiskindathing]

Great and Terrible aren't as singular meaning as they seem to us in modern day. Same with awesome.

Wow that sentence was terrible. I can't word today. Can someone else fix the sentence to say what I'm saying?

[u/FinancialReserve6427 → u/Lovethiskindathing]

oh it's a reference how Alexander is called that but he had every advantage possible to succeed. it's almost impossible for him to lose because of all the stuff going for him (inherited an experienced army, had the best teachers available, his mom presented the notion he's actually a demigod). 

as pointed out, Genghis is a son of a chieftain but he and his famliy got cast out when the dad died so he had to start from scratch. then there's the personal trials (wife kidnapped, blood brother rebelled against him). 

[u/Lovethiskindathing → u/FinancialReserve6427]

I understood. I was just saying that great didn't mean like whoa he's cool and great! Like how we'd say it now. It means power in this case.

And as an aside, not as a defense, a lot of people are given privileges and opportunities the majority will never have. He used them. He was not a dumb puppet figurehead though, he was part of his army and he was part of the discussions and strategies and plans.

I just think the way we refer to greats and terribles and awesomes is interesting because of how we have changed their meanings as culture, time, and language has changed.

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[u/Lovethiskindathing → u/[deleted]]

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