9 - Heroism in Modern Age

"Bayani ba to? Heroism for Millennials" 

I've been enlightened with the speaker’s view of heroes as a normal beings with normal hobbies and lives like us today. And as a teenager in this generation I am intrigued with what I can do to help this country. Hero's then really wanted to help the country to be free, they studied in different countries, and they became very intellectual beings. 

Even though what they were talking about is to guilt trip us and cliché words, they made good points about heroism today. You never really needed to be special to be a hero you just need to be yourself and have a goal to help our country. 

The most notifiable figure is General Luna, he was an ordinary man then with a passion to free the Filipinos but ended up getting killed by his own countrymen the Filipinos. He was a Doctor and a Scientist that studied abroad in popular universities. But even with all that achievement overseas he still came back to the Philippines and backed up Philippines as its best general in Philippine history.

The story about Heroes are sometimes very ironic too, because of their ideals for their people. The ideals of the heroes are sometimes disliked by the masses that they think that it’ll ruin them. This leads to the death of many heroes of our past.

I’ll admit it that peaceful ways can definitely help us to avert violence for more peace for the country, but when they start killing innocent people don’t even hesitate to gather our armies and take our vengeance against them.

To conclude this speech, sometimes it’s necessary for lives to be taken if it’s for the greater good and even though it may be cruel, you cannot save lives if can’t take others live. And finally you cannot be a hero if you can’t even save yourself.

 Heroism today is very rare for some people, but we can actually be a hero in our little way. As I watched the trailer, preview, and the speech regarding the meaning of heroism today and back then.