As I sat slowly puffing on my cigar and thinking about life, I began to think of some people who were, for me, personal heroes. Some people who changed my life not only thanks to their profession, but from the wholehearted effort. Those thoughts gave me a definition of heroes I hadn’t thought of before.
Is a hero a policeman or firefighter who risks his life for your safety and mine? A doctor, surgeon and nurse to help us get well? These are heroes to the profession. But I would like to define heroes in a different way. Today’s society, although many people work to help others, there are many who work for the status and salary they get from the profession.
I would like to define a hero as a person who helps you get a better life with a wholehearted effort and not just for his professional role and for the salary it gives. A person who wants to give you a better life how much personal hard work the person himself has to do. A hero can be the garbage man who wholeheartedly goes to work and helps prevent disease by keeping the streets clean, the farmer who works for a mini salary so that we can buy the food in the store, the policeman who provides security when no one else wants, the football player coaches in youth teams who train youngsters for free when the parents don’t want to show up. When the wholehearted commitment to people around you is there, you find the hero. Humanity is where you find the heroes.
My personal heroes were a surgeon. I had a slightly larger operation on my back, on the day I was to be operated on, the surgeon found out that he was not allowed to use the tools he needed, the managers thought they were too expensive. He had fought to the end for me. I had no choice but to do surgery anyway and he succeeded. What made him a hero wasn’t just the surgery, it was that he called on his day off a few days after I got home to see that everything was fine. He showed that it was not the profession that mattered, but helping someone wholeheartedly was what was important. A wholehearted effort.
What is your definition of heroes?
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