Hurried Heroes
Author's Note: This is a post from 2006 which I felt was worth resurrecting.
The people of the world often seem keen to exalt others who can be heroes for them.
Perhaps we live in a disappointed world that seeks hope. Perhaps the haste in exalting "heroes" emerges from a universal human search for a reason to sustain a dream for a better future.
But could it be that "heroes" can be heroes only when they are gazed at from afar? Could it be, if we approached the life of a "hero" in close proximity, that we would find "heroes" to be (after all) the very kind of frail, broken and wounded beings that we are. Could it be that heroes are simply people who have found creatively constructive avenues of coping with and expressing their human struggle?
Could it be that they have become "heroes" simply because we have hurried them to become symbols of hope for ourselves, and that they never intended to become heroes for anyone in the first place? Could they just be "hurried heroes"?
Comments (5)
the "hurried heros" path coould be a fasttrack towards crucifixion :-P
Posted by Sivin KIt | March 13, 2006 8:47 AM
Thou hast just given me the essential substance for my sermon on Palm Sunday in our brother Raj's community.
Posted by sk | March 13, 2006 10:25 AM
I shalt contain my impatience to hear the fleshing out of this essential substance.
Posted by irene | March 13, 2006 2:56 PM
Hahaha, like I told you, Irene, it's not going to be a biggie. Sometimes I get amazed at how simple my sermons can get.
Posted by sk | March 13, 2006 3:23 PM
No need to be a biggie... God can get through to a person with only one word, y'know? ;)
Posted by irene | March 13, 2006 3:40 PM