Day 28
Finally, i just reached Day 28, mathematically, it is equal to 4 weeks. But, yeah.. Still not counted as 1 month then. WHY? But, yeah, i really need to struggle a little more, just 2 days left for 30 DAYS!!!
Anyway, in my country, today is National Heroes' Day. It is done to commemorate the struggle of our heroes to maintain our independence from colonizations by some countries, such as Japan and Netherlands. As you can see, people in my country celebrate the day by typing in social media, such as:
"Happy National Heroes' Day!!" or with some longer words that is exaggerating for me.
But, during this day, i started to ask myself, about the definition of the hero itself. So, i decided to look up on the dictionary, and find those meanings that can be relevant for us:
Hero (n) he.ro
Definition:
1. A person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, and noble qualities
2. A person who is greatly admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities
I think, definition number 1 really defines it. And, i started to ask myself, am i qualified as a hero? Or how can someone be called as a hero?
After several small research, i can conclude myself that we can't call myself as "heroes", because in my opinion, "heroes" are relative subject. You can also see that from the definiton that uses passive meaning, which is that "heroes" is given. It depends on how the person thinks.
Let's take some examples!
Nelson Mandela. He has helped on decreasing apartheid which was a big problem in South Africa. When he died, people hailed him as "national hero". But, i have never heard he called himself as a hero, because he did it with sincerity.
Ir. Soekarno. He is the proclamator or founding father of our country. He managed to make the independence happen in Indonesia, so we can be free from a devastating colonizations that we felt for about 500 years! When he died, people hailed him as "national hero". But he has never seen himself as a hero, because he just wanted to help people.
From these 2 examples, i think, the good quality that we should have to be qualified as a hero is:
1) Have great vision and passion
2) Have great courage
3) Have great and noble attitude
4) Have great sincerity
5) Always help and inspire each other
So, yeah.. As we can see above, heroes are not about having great body images, or great physical abilities. But, we can be called as "heroes" if we have those 5 kind of things at least. So, for now on, please try to have this and try to inspire others by this.
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