Somewhere else
Ask about heroes.
The names travel.
Another city. Another country. Another accent.
Rarely next door.
It’s not a lack of talent.
Distance is safer.
If greatness lives far away, it asks nothing of you.
It doesn’t raise the bar. It doesn’t remove excuses.
Local success is different.
It collapses the distance.
If someone built something remarkable here, then “here” isn’t the constraint.
That’s uncomfortable.
So we wait.
For them to leave. To win somewhere else. To be approved.
Then we celebrate.
Not because they changed.
Because we did.