Question

Everybody is special and everybody is a hero. Each one has a story to tell. In the light of this observation, present your views.

Answer 1

God creates everyone to become ‘somebody’. Each scar can be turned into a star. Human beings are unique. Each has a talent that is unique. Like billions of snowflakes, we have children with diverse capacities and abilities. Anita was born in a poor family. Her parents did not want her to continue her studies. She went on a fast for three days and made her parents agree to her high school education. She attended some training sessions on beekeeping. She found swarms of bees approaching litchi trees. She gave private tuition to village children and started her beekeeping business. Within a few years, there was a huge demand for honey from Anitha. She not only made money for her family, but she also taught girls of her village to learn to do beekeeping. Initially, it was not an easy job. She was stung many times. She went to school with swollen faces and was mocked for doing a man’s job. But she did succeed. Later on, she became the Panchayat president and did many good things.

Now Anitha’s life story is in NCERT textbooks. Similarly, Sakshi Malik won the first medal in a wrestling match for medal-hungry India. It was Sindhu who brought laurels to India by winning the world title in badminton. Even Mary Kom who got five times gold medal for boxing was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened the “Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation” in Imphal, Manipur. She did not even have enough money to attend her first international boxing contest in the USA; Lai Bahadur Shastri, who was our former Prime Minister, had no money to travel by boat to his school. It cost one rupee those days. He used to keep all his school uniform and the books in a bag, keep it above his head, and swim with one hand across Ganga every day to school. He was very short in appearance. When a foreign delegate asked him if he was not embarrassed as he was puny in size.

He laughed and said, “Why should I? Every other leader has to bow and talk to me. It is honoring me in fact.” People irrespective of their economic backgrounds do succeed. Stephen Hawkins after being declared that he suffered from a debilitating paralytic attack asked his doctors if his brain was okay. That feeling made him the most powerful scientist in the world. He was called the living Einstein. He wrote the book, “the brief history of time”. Contrary to the predictions of doctors, he lived up to 73 and died. He is a role model to all differently-abled persons in the world. When everything is lost hope remains. I agree that everybody is special and a hero. This applies to rickshaw pullers and the Prime Minister of the country, to the Pakora salesman and IT giants. All are humans and each one has a special skill. Let us respect everyone.