What is a paragon?

There are 3 different definitions of the word paragon.

My favorite definition is the first one

• A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of particular quality

For the sake of this poem, I'm going to be referring to people.

For the most part,

Most people think all the great paragons are gone.

Confucius, Aristotle, Socrates, Caesar, Washington, and so on.

The list goes on and on.

But paragons aren't dead. In fact, we all know some;

Hell we might be them.

How many paragons can you say you met before?

What if I told you that every person you met was a paragon.

In some form or another.

Because it's just a person or a thing that is a perfect example of a quality, right?

Your favorite restaurant? The paragon of food-ery.

Your amazing teacher? The paragon of teaching.

The love of your life? The paragon of love.

All the paragons of the past were people like you and I.

They figured out what they were good at.

They figured out what they were the paragon of, and ran with it.

See all of us have the potential to be a paragon.

A paragon can be good or bad.

A paragon can be an amazing leader

Or a paragon is your next door neighbor

It’s someone who can acknowledge their faults and knows their strengths

They are someone who surrounds themselves with other paragons

Other people who have realized that they too are paragons

The 3rd definition for a paragon is a perfect diamond of one hundred carats or more

See these people who have realized their paragon potential just realized that they are worth more than what other people tell them.

That they are worth at least twenty-two million dollars give or take

Depending on the economy really

These people realized that they are perfect

They realize they could be wrong

They realize that they have at least one talent they exemplify, one talent they can teach, one talent they can use to transform.

Paragons who transform themselves embody their best virtues will be remembered

They will be remembered for being exactly what they are

As diamonds that are at least one hundred carats or more.