Hero = God....??

I was watchin collateral damage today. Amazing movie. Its a classic example of how desperate we are. How desperately we search for heroes, for someone who we can look up to and place our trust in. You see any action movie, you'll see a common theme. The protagonist is always a hero. He's always determined to do whats right.

Today, we see around us a mad mad world. Yeah, its cliche but what makes it a cliche is its truth. We humans are united in only one thing - our hate for each other, our jealousy for anyone successful, anyone better than us. Competition may be good for productivity, but it sure as hell isn't good for unity. And thats the main thing isn't it ?? Maintaining peace, creating a global unity. When you look at it, that was the purpose of all religions. Every preacher wanted to unite the world because he couldn't see it divided by hate and greed and jealousy and avarice. And yet we see people doing inhuman acts in the name of religion.

Why can't we just take the next person at face value ? Why do we always have to doubt anything someone does better than us ? All we have is hope. Hope that someday some messiah will walk this planet for the sole purpose of uniting it. We hope that there will someday be a man (or a woman) who will show us the correct path. There will be a person who would give his life to save this planet from egoists, who can't look at anything other than themselves. We find such people everywhere, in the movies, in the comics and in our messiahs.

But we can't find a person who doesn't think beyond his own self. I am yet to find a person like that. But i ask myself why can't i be a person like that. Sadly, i don't know the answer. I'm not sure what it would be like when we do find a hero. Will we just forget him in happiness and remember him or even blame him in our sadness, like we do with our Gods ?? I hope not. Because we need a common belief, a common hope if we want to see our planet as a happy place.

...."ramble on my mind".............