I've been better with the things I said when I took the lead instead of being led.

Everyone wants to be the hero when they're the person telling the story. The proud play the hero. The pathetic paint themselves the victim, and the pitying treat them like heroes for surviving it.

It's nothing more complicated than simple human nature. Vanity is a uniquely human trait. We long, constantly, to be the best and to show the best parts of ourselves to our peers. Barring that, we dress up the shitty parts of ourselves in diamonds and pearls and pass them off as better than they are. It's natural and normal to worry about angles and adjectives. Take that picture from that direction, from the right, no, from the left. Overbearing is too strong a word, can't you say determined? It's just a bunch of blah blah bullshit. Everyone is not always the hero, but everyone has pretended to be at least once, even the most virtuous of us. We create these tall tales that make us better and bigger than we are. I've done it. I'll still do it, if we're being utterly honest, and likely no less than I did it before. No one's ever ready to be brutally honest about everything all the time.