Part 4: “In Search Of Heroes Book 3″ Who do you feel are the real heroes in our society today that are not getting the recognition and rewards they deserve? by Ralph Zurans4i
Jason Potash: I think the heroes that aren’t being recognized are people that don’t do the work because they want to be recognized as a hero. They are the people, even nurses, even people who are working overseas with the situation, helping in Africa and the relief efforts happening after the tsunami tragedy happened.
People of that nature you don’t see or hear about a lot of them.
They are kind of unrecognized heroes that are heroes every day of the week. How many people do you know that would do what they do and often for the pay that they get or the pay that they don’t get? Even risk your own life, put their life on the line every day of the week to help others.
Even people back at home here who are working with children, working with children with disabilities in rehab centers and things of that nature. They are extremely gratifying roles, positions and occupations.
The gratification is not financial, obviously. Financial reward is the last thing on their mind. I mean, those are really the unrecognized heroes. People that are doing that sort of work, like the Mother Theresa’s of the world, obviously, she was very well recognized. There are many others in that same role that are doing so many good things for so many people, sort of our guardian angels.
I think they don’t get the recognition that they deserve for doing that work. Actually, this was brought in perspective with me. My daughter, a few months ago, was in the hospital. It really opened my eyes in terms of seeing what these nurses actually do.
You go in for blood work or you have a broken leg, no big deal, but when you are dealing with nurses, especially in the infant care unit who are dealing with all kinds of issues and infants who have all kinds of challenges and health problems, it breaks your heart and they deal with this day in and day out. Knowing that some of them will never get better, and some of them will unfortunately pass away before they even reach their second birthday.
Knowing that, dealing with it and connecting with children and with parents and then six months later, hopefully the child can move on to something else, you have to separate yourself emotionally. They are the heroes in my eyes, doing the Lord’s work and doing things that most people would not want to do under those circumstances, and they deserve huge credit for doing so.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
- English Proverb
- English Proverb
Dave Kekich: I think while generally entrepreneurs and business leaders are becoming a little more popular, they are still being more vilified than glorified, in the entertainment industry, especially, and in the press.
They get a lot of bad press; people attack them. When people rise to the top, they tend to get attacked, but the entertainment industry seems to glorify more villains, more drug dealers, and when they portray business people, they often portray them as evil, conniving, destructive, greedy people.
In reality, sure, every field has those kinds of people, but most successful business people and entrepreneurs are exactly the opposite.