Saturday, August 02, 2008
Heroism Is Not A Joke
Sometimes it takes a bad character to convey the message we all could do with - a very simple note but with an immense weight of significance.

It would cleanly suggests that we can learn from just about anyone, be it a sought after felon, an astute and successful businessman, a bright student with full-ride (and mostly deserved) scholarship to study abroad, a well-liked politician, an out of favor rock band, a hopeless boy who have been dumped by his girlfriends for a record of 6 times, a blogger who sounds exceptionally genius and critical on the web but in reality a mute, an average football fan who thinks he is better than any player in the Premier League just by watching them play on live telecast, a hardworking Char Koay Teow seller, anyone you name it.

But us being us, we stick to the customary fixation of learn from only the best and brightest, until our mind made too one-dimensional to see the other side of the coin, the story, the cost that we fear to be one.

Our concept of heroism is indeed a pathetic one. A short example is about the fuss of the short tempered Hang Jebat and camaraderie turncoat in Hang Tuah who were raised as the epitome of Malay heroism (I can help of being with this unreasonable arrogance, but this is how I see this) – when we care more about the defenders of the throne, counterfeit loyalties rather than the focal point of the triumph of the throne itself, the embodiment, the idea that makes today as what it is in reality.

A hero is not what we really need. All we need is to have, or nurture the hero potential, the quality in our own self, and with our own line of ways.

Dignity, responsibility and passion should be the ingredients in nurturing the hero we all need, or want to be. You are a hero by just owning up to your mistakes and take responsibility for your actions.

That would snap a clear photograph on why we don’t have many of those around – because we think failing is a failure, rather than a way to learn.

Thanks Joker for this one (although it came on screen only once albeit the movie’s stretched show time). No doubt, if not the decade, the year’s best movie catchphrase.

Why so serious?

P.S. I don’t think I sound political. Tak baik tuduh tuduh.
 
posted by Izham Ismail at 3:51 am | Permalink |


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