HEROES AND VILLIANS
" You either die a hero or you live enough to see yourself become the villain."
I don't remember the first time I had opened a story book and read a story which had a hero and a villain. The title would be different, the characters would change, but heavens forbid if it did not have an innocent and brave hero and an evil and scheming villain. Every bedtime story my mother ever told me had them. I wouldn't accept the story if it weren't the one where the hero wins and the villain loses.
But it really isn't the same when it comes to life, modern day or otherwise. You always want to fit into one of the moulds, hero or a villain, but is that so easy?
If only it were so easy to categorise yourself into one of those prescribed moulds!
Does life really want you to categorise yourself, to make yourself and your inner conscience so monotonous? At least I don't think so. The novelty of our life is that we are always given a chance, a chance to become what we choose to be. I am a hero to some, a villain to others. I would never try to fit myself into the prescribed roles of a hero or a villain.
A moment is enough to decide your fate. but what if that moment passes by you and you never decided. do you then, go through life as an aimless entity? if that were to become true, there would be a great number of people who wouldn't know what their life would ever amount up to be.
You don't decide if you get to be a hero or a villain. The world doesn't get to decide. Neither is there a destiny that decides that for you. What you see is what you get. You make your life your way.
Adolf Hitler, regarded as countless people for the merciless killing of countless people and for the second world war, was a villain. Who decided that? Did he? If his policies would have brought about a positive spin to the world, do you still think he would be a villain? Perhaps, we would never get that answer. But what you need to remember is that nobody is born bad or evil. The aftermath of the things we do make us evil. It's the consequences that matter, not the deed.
If it were up to us, everyone would like to be a hero. But the world also needs genius villains to balance the scales.
So, until then, keep working and keep living vicariously! maybe, once in a while, think about what you're doing but don't stress over your role. It will come to your when it has to.
I don't remember the first time I had opened a story book and read a story which had a hero and a villain. The title would be different, the characters would change, but heavens forbid if it did not have an innocent and brave hero and an evil and scheming villain. Every bedtime story my mother ever told me had them. I wouldn't accept the story if it weren't the one where the hero wins and the villain loses.
But it really isn't the same when it comes to life, modern day or otherwise. You always want to fit into one of the moulds, hero or a villain, but is that so easy?
If only it were so easy to categorise yourself into one of those prescribed moulds!
Does life really want you to categorise yourself, to make yourself and your inner conscience so monotonous? At least I don't think so. The novelty of our life is that we are always given a chance, a chance to become what we choose to be. I am a hero to some, a villain to others. I would never try to fit myself into the prescribed roles of a hero or a villain.
A moment is enough to decide your fate. but what if that moment passes by you and you never decided. do you then, go through life as an aimless entity? if that were to become true, there would be a great number of people who wouldn't know what their life would ever amount up to be.
You don't decide if you get to be a hero or a villain. The world doesn't get to decide. Neither is there a destiny that decides that for you. What you see is what you get. You make your life your way.
Adolf Hitler, regarded as countless people for the merciless killing of countless people and for the second world war, was a villain. Who decided that? Did he? If his policies would have brought about a positive spin to the world, do you still think he would be a villain? Perhaps, we would never get that answer. But what you need to remember is that nobody is born bad or evil. The aftermath of the things we do make us evil. It's the consequences that matter, not the deed.
If it were up to us, everyone would like to be a hero. But the world also needs genius villains to balance the scales.
So, until then, keep working and keep living vicariously! maybe, once in a while, think about what you're doing but don't stress over your role. It will come to your when it has to.
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