Gods are gods because they had to fight demons, devils of evil intentions. Without these rebelling elements, Gods are but common men and women. Villains are Villains, because they are preset to destroy all that is good. Were Villains once Gods themselves? Are they the fresh product of a cosmic recycling of souls? This tussle between Gods and Villains can surely be traced back to the moment of creation. A Synonym to an antonym. One atom fighting another. Nobody needs to ask who put those atoms in the first place. Can’t it be Gods?
Where there is a God, there is a Villain, lurking, periodically striking, and keeping the God busy doing godly tasks. A story is as good as its villain. It’s a strange statement this – A story is as good as its villain. In how many computational ways can one understand a statement such as this? Remind yourself, your favorite novels or movies that you have relished over the years. Can you remember a story which did not have an antagonist, an opposing force, or something stopping the protagonist from getting what she wants? It seems the case, clearly, that the higher the opposing barriers built by the Villain, the higher the common woman must rise, and will rise to become the story’s Hero.
The Hero. What a beautiful word. It displays, through its mere quadruple letters, a gazillion emotions. The Hero stands for everything just, everything worth fighting for, everything worth living for. The rest of the actors, who simply serve to serve the Hero on his journey, are blurred out behind the glistening aura. The Hero represents them. Their struggles are the Hero’s struggles. Their voice is the Hero’s voice. And for that, the Hero will almost always sacrifice herself. How wonderful it would be, if each of us sincerely strove to be Heroes of our lives.
A story is as good as its villain. Where and who is your Villain? What is he doing? What is she doing? And what did it do to you? The simple purpose, the only purpose of an antagonist in a story is to enable the Hero to rise to even more precarious heights. Dizzying heights. If the antagonist succeeds in bringing down the Hero, there isn’t going to be a story. If the antagonist succeeds, the protagonist fizzles into the background, behind the aura of yet another volunteer who takes her place. The Villain eats losers for breakfast. But it is what the Villain wants for dinner that really gets it mad, filled with red rage. The Hero will not budge, you get it? The Hero stands for the unstoppable force trying to break through the immovable object. The Hero is the Hero.
So, shall we try then? To be Heroes. In simple but numerous ways. Make your bed, and I will make my bed, the first thing in the morning. And that would be the first heroic action of the day. How simple.
Let us go for a run, maybe?
Something to get us going.
Something to snap us out of our dreamy minds.
Run done. Run done.
Pant for a while, we deserve the short break.
But the Hero’s phone is ever ringing
So let us go, the caller has asked for you.
Miss Hero you are needed at the scene.
