HERO...!!!

Its about everyone of us. Recently, when i was watching a movie i saw the hero doing something stupid and getting himself into deep trouble (of course he successfully comes out with a few scratches at the end), i was thinking, "only if i was in his place..!!"

That night when i was about to sleep a simple debate came up in my mind.

"Imagining being a hero" and "Being a hero"

Guess i will have to define hero first for you people to take a side.
Here is mine: "A person who fights/tackles extraordinary situations (a normal person would have normally/generally given up on) and ends up saving his friends and some times may be a geographical region with his own sense of justice (which people love) or someone who achieves extraordinary things in life against all odds." I guess everyone has his own definition of a hero in one way or another which will be a bit close to this.

I am sure everyone of us imagined being a Sachin Tendulkar, a Michael Jackson, a super spy, a superman, an army major at Kargil war, a Bruce Lee, oka baalayya (on popular demand) and the list goes on. (Looks like i am a male chauvinist, once done i saw that i didnt even mention one female name. Lets leave that part for the time being.)

In the above list i mentioned there are some real life heroes and some fictional characters but what matters is when ever we watch one of these in the media we are filled with a nice feeling, "Yes.!" as if we achieved something. One reason might be because of the hope they fill in our hearts.

I am trying my best not to be as ambiguous as Madhu in his blog "Wrong..!" but looks like i am already.

SO, the debate i was talking about is "Can i really be a hero?"
If i have to become a hero i should be able to do at least one of the things below:
1. Fight against the anti-social elements and bring down a whole criminal organization.
2. Achieve a khel-ratna in some sport or the Arjuna award.
3. Become a scientist and find a cure for some disease.
4. Save a planet from alien attack.
5. Simply dance with a nice girl and start a love story and finally win her (a typical bolly-hero)
6. Fight a hundred factionists and build a dam in seema (a typical tolly-hero)
7. Write a few literary classics.
8. Fight for a seperate state or against it.
9. Be a Special agent trying to solve a murder (revenge for a murdered partner) while trying to catch a terrorist bomber and saving your family.
10. a farmer who joins the communists and holds a red-flag to fight the local dictator.
and the list goes on...

See how impractical it is for a typical middle-class family's elder son who according to his parent's wishes and a society with a very narrow vision learned maths and physics(at that time thought was the best thing to do), completed engineering half-heartedly (sadly in a race against hundreds with a similar fate) and is now a software engineer (like thousands) with almost no inspiration at all to do anything, not to mention the already very important 25 years of growing up behind him to become one of the above. Well, since most of you (reading this) are in a very similar stage it might not be hard to understand.

But while reading or watching fictional or real life heroes you can always imagine being in their place and always think of solutions in their place. What do we get by doing this? May be a little happiness, a distraction and a little work for the brain in a different direction (it has been working in a monotonous way the last few years) and an easier way to get to sleep.

A song from a recent movie, "Give me some sun shine, give me some rain, give me another chance I wanna grow up once again..." must have moved you a lot. At least a few of us might have thought, "Yaa..!! take me back n number of years back and i will show you what can i grow into..!!"

Well, that means you have decided what you want to grow in to. Since you didn't know that in childhood you couldn't grow in that direction. Well, if you haven't decided but just want to leave it to chance but to work a little harder than you did at some stages then i think it is really useless. May be you would be in a little better position than you are in right now but definitely there wouldn't be any astonishing achievements.

Then, if you already know what you want to be. Then there is no meaning in going back a few years in my view. It is never late to start fresh and start achieving. Officially, there is no age-limit for being a hero in your own way (except may be a few dogmas). "Man..!! i hate these dogmas, standards, rules."

SO, at the end of this debate, i found this.

The kind of hero you are imagining (includes superheroes), start imagining in a more detailed way and may be one day you will find a way (in those details) to become a hero in your own way.



P.S.: If you like this and understand it..."Koooooooool..!!"
If you didn't, "I am not sure i can be of any further help."