Hero Worship

Apart from the satiric writing that I have posted till now, I think it’s high time I actually wrote something serious. And if you ask me, this is something that is quite frankly disturbing to witness in everyday life. [Just as disturbing as seeing Slumdog millionaire win the Oscars for best picture last year.]

The thing that I’m talking about of course is Hero Worship. [The title? Yeah, congratulations on finding out. Or as 6^th standard kids would say, “Discoveryyyyy”.]  It’s plain and simply painful to see that ordinary humans with no supernatural strengths or powers what so ever are elevated to the status of hero or god or overall good guy.

“Oh my god [read in staccato (with a lots of pauses and deep breaths)], it’s my favorite Actor, using a power cable to mow the lawn. Let me try too!” 

A few minutes later.

Zzzzzzzttttttt. “OUCH!!”

[The person who didn’t die by the way. The shock did to him, the opposite of what plastic surgeons did to Michael Jackson. May his soul rest in peace. OW! ]

Anyways, this is just one of the million examples that one can quote, about the senseless hero worship prevalent in today life. From firecrackers at movies releases to milk abishekams[that’s a religious offering of milk to a god’s idol for you  people who do not understand Tamil, lactic acid rituals for you scientific folk and milk baths, for you non religious folk.] on pictures of actors, we’ve seen it all.

But the question arises doesn’t it? Can’t all of this be converted in some way to something productive? I mean why don’t we see enough celebrities doing something that can save the environment? Or help reduce if not remove the levels of poverty in the country? Okay people can argue that some celebrities do come on “save the planet” or “plant a tree” or “wear no fur shows” but c’mon, it’s just another publicity stunt! If Lady Gaga can show up at the Oscars in an egg, how difficult is it for her to give one to a poor guy?

Forget the foreigners. If you can advertise for a bloody fan advert Capt. Cool, I’m pretty sure you can advertise for something like “help the old or something”.

The question really lingers that, is it really necessary that we require a role model or someone to follow to do things that involve passion and a kind heart and not just a fat wallet? Why can’t we as individuals just step up? Or do we forever need to bear the satanic curse of Hero Worship?

I know this isn’t by best work by far, but it was something brimming at the top of my head for a very long time.

Why heroes? Be the hero.

Signing off,

3^rd Law.

P.S : Yes that was a topic from  one of  my exam  papers.

          Don’t think of it as plagiarism. It’s not. It was really hard writing something like this twice. And oh last time I checked writing about something you’d written before isn’t plagiarism.