there will always be that one girl i look up to. she's about a year older than i am and i swear, she does almost everything excellently. i mean, she's my idea of a "renaissance man": she's a very good visual artist, she's a good singer, she's a good actress, she's very smart, she's very open-minded and is willing to try new things, she's a very concerned older sister to her younger siblings (as far as i know from the concerns she voices out to me), she's a student leader whom everyone respects and listens to, and she was the captain of our high school's pep squad (i just had to throw that one in there haha). you'd think that people like her are mary sue-ish, but she totally isn't. i was her classmate on our third and fourth year of high school, and i saw her break down and cry because she felt she was doing a mediocre job of being a student/sister/daughter, or i would see her come to class with extremely puffy eyes because she stayed up all night for a school project -- and i'm not talking about something made half-assed here.
she has been, and will always be, my role model. being a personal witness to some of her struggles, i know that she wasn't "born excellent" and all that; she made herself excellent by pushing herself to do her duties to the maximum and beyond.