13- Heroism

What is a hero? We often believed that super hero are fictional character who always saved us human. That is the question that had a few seconds of my thought. A question that had me started to search for what it really is and how they become. A hero is a person who is in the face of danger from a position of weakness, it displays courage, bravery or self-sacrifice. That is, heroism for some greater good. The word hero comes from the Greek word "hero, warrior", particularly one such as Heracles with divine ancestry or later given divine honors. Literally protector or defender.

            We Filipinos always believed and always see our own heroes in our money in our everyday lives but we never wonder how they became a hero? What are their contribution to our mother country? How did they fight to all the injustices? This are just the questions that we don’t care about. Questions that we don’t ever care. Now recently, I have attended a seminar about Filipino heroism they are a group of Filipino who are consists of artist like John, politician, historian and even a simple Filipino like me. They are currently promoting a movie named Heneral luna which is also a famous Filipino hero. Heneral Luna is played by the artist John who is also part of the group. They promote the movie so that a lot of people will watch it ad we should watch it too so that it will not be changed by Sm cinemas for a short period of time.

            I like the group’s advocacies because they explained a lot of question to us that can’t be answered easily by our own teacher because they are not really a historian like we are not made by the history, because we mad the history, The more you know the past the better you are prepared in the future, and a lot more. They even told us that the main reason why there is no progress I Philippine economy is first we don’t acknowledge and imitate our hero. They say that we see our hero as a perfect person and has a mindset that A hero is a perfect person but that is definitely not true.