Few years back, Hero started an advertisement which has a
song by AR Rahman giving a message that there is a hero in every person. Hero
is usually a person who is admired for his courage, outstanding achievements,
or noble qualities. Informally, I can say that any person who has done
something that the society admires or respects is a hero. Hero may be a soldier
who stakes his own life to save someone’s life or to protect the country, a
sports person who works hard and play with passion so that our flag can rise
high on an international podium, a storyteller who inspires us by his words, or
a scholar who despite lesser odds attains some form of academic success.
What’s common in all of the above examples is that our
traditional definition of hero mainly incorporates success as an essential
feature for being a hero. Whosoever has achieved some form of success is a
hero. Now I just wanted to broaden the definition of the term hero so that all
of us can realize that we all have hero inside us. What makes us a hero? Most
of us might be struggling hard in life and considering themselves as a loser as
we failed to attain whatever we have desired or we might not have reached the
point in life which we thought we would have at this time of our life or simply
we just feel we don’t have any achievement worth mentioning and no highlight in
our life right now. So, how could we be hero without having even a single
feather in our cap right now?
We are hero because we are the strugglers and so far we have
survived in life against all odds. Multiple times we have been tested, put into
unrealistic expectations of performing where we were least interested but
following the herd, we tried and we failed and we tried again, we struggled in
conditions where we were really unhappy but yet in hope of a better future
ahead we survived that too. Ever since the beginning we are struggling and
surviving and fighting and climbing one step at a time. Most of us hated
schools yet we cleared it, mugged hard for entrance to colleges, cried aloud in
college and still cleared it and then are still struggling in our jobs but yet
we don’t lose either our hopes or our ambitions. We all are in a persistent
battle to do something good in our life and our grief is only because of our failure
to do so.
But it is a good grief; our depression is good because it
shows we still hope. We still want to change the course of life instead of
settling for what it is offering us. We might be down because we think we won’t
be able to do something worth mentioning in our life, but the thought of
judging our life with what we are right now and what we think we should have been in itself shows that we are still committed towards a bigger dream and willing to cross all obstacles to make it a reality.
We are fighters, we are strugglers, we hope, we dream and we believe while
there are many who has abandoned all and settled for much less than what they
could have been.
Each one of us is a hero who has survived many battles and
would continue to march on many other battles fields despite his/her weakness
and relying solely on hope and courage. So those of you who have questioned
your capabilities, don’t think that you are a loser or you can’t make it big in
life. Life is all about learning and applying. Failures are the stepping stones
towards success so never hesitate in failing. Wipe out the fear of failure in
your mind and flourish the faith and you would realize life is much more than
few obstacles. There would be bleak nights where you would question everything,
your strengths, your well wishers, your destiny, your ability to do something
in life, let that night pass because it won’t last forever.
No one can make you positive rather than you. No one can
make you realize your abilities than you. You have to pull yourself out of
darkness of disappointments and depression and show yourself the direction
towards light. No motivational book or words or counsellor can help you unless
you are ready to forgive yourself for your failures and prepare yourself for
the coming battles. You have to take
charge of your own fights instead of looking towards the world for a helping
hand. This is your life and only you can be the driving engine of it.
So I urge all those who are sad or unhappy and thinking that
life is full of struggle to realize and respect the hero within them and charge
themselves to give their best. Dil se kaho ke hum mein hai hero . J
