In the dictionary, the hero is defined as a person who is distinguished by bravery and exceptional courage in war, by special self-sacrifice in other difficult circumstances or in work, as a main character of a literary work, or an event. A hero is a person who, in certain circumstance, draws attention to himself. (In Greco-Roman mythology) Demigod was a person born of a deity and an earthly being, endowed with superhuman powers or who became famous for his special deeds.
There is a hero in each of us, but not all of us recognize him, but we like to indulge ourselves and daydream about an image created by the limited knowledge we have acquired through a certain activity. Thus, the hero of the day, in Romania, is as Claudiu Padureanu said: “A good hero is a dead hero.” Why do I give this man justice?! Because the Romanians are not able to accept the harsh truths told by a strong man who knows how to pay the price of freedom. Some have already paid it big and fat, in the past, and some are paying their debs until today. Each country is different, and every human has his role on this planet.
The hero is a person who always has an obstacle to face and always faces it by standing out. When hope dies, a flame in his heart gnaws to stat a new path of benevolent wars. Everything seems disconnected from reality, but when a man has nothing left to lose, he is a man who succeeds in what he sets out to do without giving too much importance if he makes a mistake, he is a man with whom you can hardly fight to come out victorious.
Heroes who died in the past made a dream come true today?! We can only remember them as those people who gave their lives for a well-deserved cause. Was this sacrifice worth it? So many people died in wars… For what? Who deserves a title for so much sacrifice? Everyone wants the good for the people, in every country, but don’t think they know that to have something of our own that we can worship and raise as a goal in this world for other nations to follow, not just us to be replaced.
The world is a unit that keeps us all stable in society. We are still living in the “past” communism, why am I saying this? Well, when everything “ended” for the communist era, a new start was actually given to a libertine communist thinking, because all we thought that we are not like that, but we forget one thing, this is how we were raised, and like that we continue this behavior in life, without even knowing about. We all have a little “blue seed” that we will hardly get rid of, now we cultivate it without even realizing it. The fact is, we should worry more about it. The hero does not exist! It’s just an image, as I said before, it’s what we want to believe, and of course, what we learned in life about it. The dream is always shattered by the truth, in some ways more than others. In each of us there is a piece of hero that make each of us brave in certain situations, we stand out through brave or less brave things.
Why would anyone want to be a hero? We are all heroes by the simple fact that we live.
© Oana-Nicoleta Balc 2023-07-23