We don't need Heros

Today as I was watching a movie, one dialogue captivated me. The dialogue is, " We don't need heroes but we need those who do not wait for one".

We all have an idealized hero who we look to when trouble arises. That may be the one reason we always have a hero and a villain in a movie where the villain is defeated by a hero as a symbol of good wins over evil. These idealized heroes are 'backups' to solve the problems. 

Growing up we always found faults in others to justify our wrongdoings. When siblings fight and mom suddenly arrives we are quick to blame the other to escape punishment. In schools, if the results during examination are not satisfiable the blame is put on the teacher. 

After reaching adulthood we wait for someone to start rather than to begin. As soon as we detect something wrong we wait for someone like Messiah to point it out first.

When problems arise we look for an invisible entity for solution rather than identifying the problems and fixing the problem. There is a phrase in Malayalam that goes " than padi deivam padi" which means half of the efforts are to be done by man and leave the rest to God.