CONTEST: "The Keyword of the Week" Hero

To whom you consider a hero totally depends on how you define a hero! For me, the hero could be any person who can give a way to life, who can give hope, who can make a person smile. I redefine my hero by using Rumi's words. "A hero is a ladder, a life boat or a lamp for those who are struggling, suffering and fighting with their darker lives."

The very first hero which was introduced by my grandma was a king and a father who saved her two daughters in a storm. In school I learned about many national, international and religious heroes. With time, I dig up many mythical and real heroes. As a teenager, like bird minded girls, I thought a hero was a prince charming who came into life and there would be showers of thousands of colors. Teenage was gone, but unfortunately he didn't arrived 🙃. Well then came the typical hero of movies and novels. Irfan Khan is a favorite. His spell casting voice wouldn't let anyone go before the end of the picture. His remarkable work can be seen in Life of Pi, Maqbool, Lunchbox.

Last week was a little disturbing and in this situation I found Al Pacino's "The Scent of a Women". The story of a retired colonel who has a very sharp olfactory sense and can recognize any woman from the perfume she used. With this blessing, he was striving in a forever darkness. Despite his blindness, he was thriving to his fullest life. Colonel wore a stony accent, maybe to avoid sympathy for a blind man.

The Godfather fame actor leads me to a world where I see the epic of human imagination constructed with scents, some warm emotions and a desire for life to make it loveable. The fragrances which he can feel, flowing from his emotions and lit the road on which the blind colonel was enjoying his journey. But a wave of despondency wrapped him and he decided "to blow his brain". At the heights of desperation, he delivers a dialog which reflects his intense desire to live at an edge where he is going to finish his life. And the dialogue is:

"Do you ever have the feeling, that you want to go And still have the feeling, that you want to stay"

These were the finest expression of the coexistence of contradictory extremes in a single being. Al Pacino's skillful expressions depict it perfectly. The character of Colonel Frank Slade is a hero for me. And the reason is simple! He brought hope and a smile for me.

@aminasafdar ksi choty moty blub ki roshni mn bta sakti hn k ap ka favorite hero kon h.