Ravings of a Nomadic Mind

"He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."

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Ever wondered why children always wish to become some thing heroic. When ever you ask a small child what he or she wishes to become when they grow up the answers are always from a small list of very elite careers. The answer always varies from doctors, soldiers, astronauts, sailors, pilots or some thing else similarly glamorous. No child ever expresses the wish to be a dentist or an accountant. Why is that???? What is that makes them choose professions that are so different from the other fields of human Endeavour? I think the main reason for this kind off infatuation lies in the human need for an icon or a hero or simply something or someone larger than life. A life that is much more different than what they see their parents neighbors around them lead.

I was watching Spiderman 2 yesterday and in that movie aunt May tells peter parker that the neighborhood children were very sad that Spiderman wasn’t around any more when asked an explanation about her statement aunt may says this is so because people need some one to look up to, they need heroes that they will line the streets to welcome and march behind to fight all that they perceive as wrong. They need someone that they can tell about to their grand children that they were their when so and so did such and such.

this need stems from the fact that almost all of us are made different from each other though we may not lack any thing compared to other people physically emotionally we all differ and that emotional difference creates heroes or cowards among us . I believe that the only difference between heroes and normal people, between people like Gandhi, Churchill and Kennedy and the people who followed them was the amount of time they could stand under a constant barrage of unmanageable odds. They stood and stared down people like Hitler, the British Empire and Kruchev for what they beli8eved to be right. Even though many other people believed in the same things as they did only they had the strength to face down a far superior enemy. To stand behind their convictions and hang on with whatever it takes or no matter how long it takes. Their undying belief in what they thought was right in turn inspired many more to stand up and take their rightful place in history to make things right. But they are not the only heroes out their are far more numerous people out their who perform outstandingly, do heroic deeds create minor miracles out of totally hopeless situation. He exists in a nurse who serves others with total disregard for her own health. This hero exists in the street side worker who sweeps the streets day in and day out for a meager income without any thanks or any other expectations from the rest of the human populace. he exists in the teacher who teaches his students about the immense knowledge out their waiting to be gathered who instill faith strength and character in his or young charges. Mother Teresa was a heroine in the truest sense but so were the others who served with her the other sisters of missionaries of charity.

captain Vikram Batra was a hero but so were the other soldiers who fought by his side some who fought by his side and died or others who had the good fortune to not to become the victims of the enemy bullets. Dr Kalam the president of India is a hero for the younger generation, but so is the father who works 18 hours a day so that his children can have the best of education and future that he can provide.

We all have the potential to be heroes all we need to achieve is face our worst enemies that is our selves and our worst fears which is our own downfall. The day we learn to hang on just a little longer and be a little braver the we learn to see beyond our selves and our miniature little existence we have the potential to out do our selves and more over be heroes.