Herosim

Read a really interesting article in Outlook about heroism. Just thought of posting some of the interesting ones :

Few questions:

• Can anyone be a hero or is it a predestined possibilty?
• Is herosim accidental or genetic ?
• Does herosim create a neurochemical response in the brain - is it a feeling ?!

Other points :

• In some heroism lies like coiled inside like a dormant giant waiting to be woken up. In others, it is the only goal, the singular reality that validates the purpose of life.
• Herosim is when ppl break out of the nature-nurture limitations and hit new dimensions of their own potential
• Hero is an ordinary man in a extraordinary situation.
• Herosim is about valour and death denial - since in all cultures man is nothing but a mortal animal.

Who is the real hero ?

• Is a kargil matyr a bigger hero or a social worker who gives hope and heatlh to street children?
• Is Microsoft Mogul Bill gates more vailant or Nkosi Jonson , the 12 yr old who died of AIDS in 2001 , inspiring millions of Africans and around the world to action in the fight against the epidemic?
• Can Veerapan and Phoolan Devi be called heroes.? After all, they too had many heroic qualities.

Finally...

We need heroes to prove that the good and the better is possible. Hero worship is all about longing to lay our hearts at their feet.