Wow, that's like, the worst mentality ever.
Personally, it's not just that it's so opposite of my own thinking, but rather that I see that mentality as so...
illogical. Life, and what you do in it is so dependent on mental approaches, so it strikes me as
physically ineffective to be bogged down with such a pessimistic outlook. Especially an outlook based on things that are so irrelevant!
If the afterlife is blank unconsciousness, why do we care? By the time you're there, you're unconscious, you
can't care! So worry about the reality that
does matter. It may be a bubble, but it's the only bubble we're capable of knowing. Logically, it's the only thing that needs your focus. There isn't another option.
As for rolemodels, I find inspiration in a lot of people. Locally, my uncle is one of the strongest men I know, and my hope is to build myself into something that resembles that. His life is completly dedicated to his family. He is poor, he didn't go to college, he doesn't have much in terms of social or financial achievements, but he's happy - and that's exactly my life goal.
In Smash, Mikey Lenetia is my rolemodel. Not that I believe being gay at all makes me lesser, but inherently it gets to me. It happens when you're a minority - a teeny part whispers whenever you fail "It's because you're gay/hispanic/Peach." That's why whenever a member of that group succeeds, I feel so incredibly proud. It proves that corrupted voice wrong, and I love it.
Historically, Alan Turing (for being gay and awesome), M. C. Escher (for blending of mathematics and art), Scott Herman (for being hot), Lisa Simpson (best character ever), Rorschach from Watchmen (uncompromising morals), and I could go on.