Arguably Too Good For Me

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I'm wondering if anyone else has run into a similar situation?: I have a bit of a crush on someone who is older, more educationally advanced, and generally much more mature than I am. It started out as a hero-crush kind of situation. Seriously, he's kind of amazing, so that's not a starry-eyed overstatement. My question is basically if anyone else has found themselves in a "crush" situation with someone who is for serious out of their league and how do you put the kybosh on that nonsense before it becomes embarrassing?

Yes! The worst ever was a teacher.

No such thing as too good for you. Leagues don't exist cause everyone has a different idea of what is good. Just my strong opinion.

Don't let anyone tell you what you deserve and don't deserve, don't ever let anyone tell you that something is out of your league or reach because if you believe it is, it will be.

Thank you for the support As a bit of an addendum though: I don't mean that I'm not good enough for this person to love, I just mean that any kind of relationship out in the world would be fairly awkward and that would probably negatively impact any relationship we could have. I'm the opposite of sophisticated and he's old enough to be my father (and I think his kids are fairly near my age, so maybe that's creepy). This is more about real-world considerations than self-esteem issues, plus he works in my department, although nowhere near my unit. It's already slightly impacting my effectiveness at work. Today, he didn't seem able to look at me and I don't know if that's because I've done something "telling" or what, but I inadvertently make enough people uncomfortable that I'm sensitive to this issue. So, yeah, I want to commiserate but I also want to know how to kill the crush.

I can see you evolving solutions during the course of this thread ... by yourself ... you've moved away from your initial talk about how awesome the guy is and phrasing it as "out of my league" to rephrasing as practical considerations but not too good for you. You're moving in the right direction, I think. It makes sense to me that less focus on the awe (which is driving the problem) and more focus on the practical considerations and realism (which is the solution) is exactly right. That was a rapid shift in thinking, by the way.

But as some have mentioned do evaluate your practical considerations and be sure they're not just defeatism or failure of imagination. If they're not, then carry on, that's my 2 cents.