Friday 4 May 2012

Hero Worship


Article by:- Nimmy Tiju, Lecturer, Dept of English, St Alberts College, Ernakulam.
Hero worship is a kind of mania spread among modern people. It is a kind of blind imitation without any base. They imitate others without thinking whether it is good or bad. People worship persons in cricket, film, models and men of success in various fields.
If a person wins fifty runs in a cricket match its merit goes to him. He has its benefit. People who are watching the game would not gain anything. The spectators are clamouring and shrieking as if they got same profit. It is a pity to think that people are worshipping them as their Gods.
Heroes do not have any extraordinary quality. He is just an ordinary man. He came to the zenith of his success through his hardwork. To some, film stars are Gods. They are trying to imitate them in every deed and in words. One thing we have to realize is that film stars are mere puppets in the hands of directors and producers.
We give more importance to emotion than to reason. We fail to realize who should be our real heroes. It is our parents who make us what we are. No film stars, no models would help us in our predicaments. Parents are the physical incarnation of God. Models, filmstars, cricket players etc are sincere to their job. It is this quality which helped them to attain their goal.
We fail to realize the sacrificing mentality of people working in the army. They are giving their lives for the sake of us. If a war breaks out it is they who will have to face the toils and hardshipsof war inorder to protect our nation. No politicians, no cricket players will sacrifice their life for our sake. People in the Army and Navy are the men who should win our appreciation. We give more importance to peripheral glitterings. Even governments would not show any mercy to them or to their family. Works of God. No man can determine the fate of his fellow being.
It is a pity, modern man is making a new God. He could not understand that this fellow being is also a man having the same limitations and qualities of a man. Now he wants a duplicate God inorder to satisfy his hunger to find a God. If he fails in his search he becomes an atheist.
Man tries to state that he is an incarnation of God. And he forces others to adore him. What a pity to think, now man fails to understand who should be adored and who should not be. Now he is losing his rational power.

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