We romanticize pirates like we do many criminals and politicians. Though lately I've been running across posts on TikTok that trash many famous people in history that we thought of as pretty decent role models like Gandhi and Sister Teresa. They throw Thomas Jefferson and George Washington under the carriage as well.
I don't imagine anyone truly lives up to an image. We are human after all (which seems to be the universal justification for doing stupid shit).
But back to pirates.
I have been fascinated with them off and on during my life. Because of my long white beard, I've pictured myself as a pirate. But the reality is that most pirates were young men in their 20s with a few seasoned sailors or captains in their 30s-40s. People back then didn't live as long and though they sing about a pirate's life for me in Disneyland, it was a pretty rough life.
Nothing is as it is in your mind.
Or that's all there is.
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