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Latest post Mon, Apr 2 2007 6:16 AM by SeekerOfPeace. 9 replies.
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Gogoamili  +  325581 Wed, 07 Feb 07 01:54 PM

First, let me difine “hero” in my thread.

Hero: People who make some special accomplishment in their fields. (Including famous people and non-famous )

Michael Jordan, a miracle of NBA, had a seeming perfect family. However he had divoced in a few week ago. Bill Clinton, everybody know who this guy is, an eight-year ex-president of US. Also, making scandal during his presidency. Most people thought they all had happy familes in the camera lights (M.Jordan & Juanita, Clinton & Hilary). Actually, they didn’t. ……Maybe they don’t have all the time. In some aspects, we call them ‘hero’. What makes them lone in their careers ( or lifes), I think I can figure out some factors.

First, even you are not a hero, but you want to make some achievements, you have to pay most of your time in your jobs, that makes you omit your friends and family. When time pass by, your relations with them also passby, I mean go far (maybe away).

Furthermore, all heroes love perfect. People often say practice make perfect. I think “tens of thousands practices”make them perfect. It’s hard to imagine to how much time they have to pay.

Third, they are public persons. They can not do some common things openly or do any things they wants to do. This is an imporant point attributed to their loneness.

The last, I think, where there is a hero, there are medium. Medium all concern about heroes’ news, anything about them. Because of that attracts people eyeballs. Dogs are chasing them all the time.

(Third and The last are about famous people)

Well, maybe some important points I forget. If you like this topic, make some comments.

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Ja-Mez  +  325625 Wed, 07 Feb 07 03:16 PM
I think in the cases of Jordan and Clinton, the divorces were not so much the result of a hero's loneliness as much as they were the result of the hero cheating on his wife...
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nona the brit  +  325628 Wed, 07 Feb 07 03:28 PM

 Ha, they weren't lonely enough then! Smile [:)]

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Gogoamili  +  325634 Wed, 07 Feb 07 03:40 PM
Actually, I'm not talking Jordan and Clinton's marriage. I just used them to introduce my topic.
The marriage is one of many cases in their life. Of course, there are many cases making them lonely which I didn't mention.
Feebs11  +  325652 Wed, 07 Feb 07 04:13 PM
I feel there is a difference should be drawn between heroes and "famous" people who are often cited as "heroes". .A hero inherently is looked up to and admired, and can be your next door neighbour. "Famous" people are usually in the public eye and under considerable pressure from public comment on their behaviour, actions and lives. An implication in your statement that heroes "love perfection" and work at it, by so doing having no time for family or friends, to me is inherently untrue. Heroes are not necessarily any more lonely or otherwise than other people. Some heroes, by position in society or profession, may appear isolated from "the ordinary man", but their own lives may be perfectly satisfactory. Breakdown in marriage isn't necessarily anything to do with someone being "a hero" - far more likely to do with the individual's personal nature.

Personally I certainly don't regard Clinton as  a hero!


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Gogoamili  +  325748 Wed, 07 Feb 07 07:34 PM
You should read my thread carefully. I have defined "heros" first, coz different people have different people in their mind.

Thanks your reply.
Feebs11  +  325845 Thu, 08 Feb 07 01:35 AM
I am querying your basic premise - that heroes are lonely.
Jhumjhum  +  341535 Wed, 21 Mar 07 04:22 AM
 People who are heros from any aspect of life ( according to me political persons like Bill Clinton or George Bush or Tony Blare etc etc etc are not  heroes but villainsStick out tongue [:P])are lonely because they are different from the normal people ,they have unconventional thoughts ,sometimes they think beyond the present times , often their lifestyle is  not like the ordinary persons life.So it is diificult for a normal person to deal with.Sometimes  a celebrety hero or a heroine( not film heroine, but I don't know the femnine of hero or what should I call Joan of Arc ,a heroine?)often faces problem if he or she had a normal spouse because they can not understand them properly.We may admire or critisize them from distance but we can't get closer to their mind, it is difficult.Sometimes they have to keep distances with people, specially when they become a celebrety.
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Anonymous, 2 yr 245 days ago

Before showing my point of view, I'd like to ask you all guys (including myself) what is the definition to heroes or heroines. I presume that there will be various anwers. Generally speaking, different people give different definitions to heroes. However, we have to admit that whatever the heroes or heroines are, they all have one ficture in common, that is they are unconventional, they are different from most of us.

Referring to the question what make most heroes lonely, I have more words to be flowed out. To be frank, I have always wish to be a person who are unique. Nevertheless, I am still common me. I keep on asking myself why I can't achieve this small aim. Gradually, I find that one reason is that I am not willing to be alone, I don't want to be separated from others. I overeact to the others' attitutes towards me. I think too much on what the others think about me. Then, look back to the so-called heroes or heroines. Are they really lonely? I don't think so. For me, It is difficult to concentrate on my study when the surrounding people are chattering. Even, I feel it is hard for me to stand up for my opinions before others. What about others? Some people can do it easily. They can focus on their tasks even under noisiest environment. So I draw a conclusion that what we think is impossible maybe easy for the others. If we do like the heroes, we will feel unhappy. However, for the heroes, they are happy to do like that. They fulfill that conduct just because they think it is worth doing and it is natural.

What make most herous loney? The real reason is that we are not the heroes and we can't understand them. Heroes, just be yourself.

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