Modern day heroes

[Joe_Cole]

I'm just surprised that nobody has mentioned all those unsung heroes in the RNLI.

 

[Guest]

Damn, you beat me, that's exactly what I was going to say

 

[Guest]

Dep Sol, you may be right but I heard Ellen being interviewed on the radio on Sunday evening (BBC - R5).

She was talking about the work she does for charities helping kids with cancer, first in France then in the UK, and how inspirational she found them - on the grounds that she may choose to face hardships, but they are stuck with being ill.

So, if that is true, I would be amazed if there weren't special circumstances.

I wholeheartedly agree with the people above - she's a heroine to me for proving women sailors are right up there, and also for her incredible guts and determination.

"Whoops... I'm falling in love with narrowboating..."

 

[jeanette]

Re: Any more nominations?

Clearly Ellen is up there at the top for many including myself ...
closely followed by Thor? Sir Peter Blake?

My vote also goes to Tania Abei? If she can get round the world on her own at that age, with so little experience, a 26ft boat and a dodgy sextant she deserves some acknowedgement.



Jeanette

 

[Vasco]

Yes , just as good , like Amer Sports 2 has been proving along these past months on the Volvo Race.

 

[DepSol]

I only heard from a reliable source, someone involved with the charity that, se just said no and wouldnt give a reason.

Dom

 

[billmacfarlane]

I think you're being a tad hard on today's youth. Go down to any sailing club at the weekend and you'll see lots of them sailing and windsurfing. The world is a smaller place than it was to past generations due to the fact that it's brought into their rooms by the telly. It still doesn't stop them going out to see it.My own daughter , eighteen ,has just returned from Outer Mongolia working for Save the Children . She couldn't stop crying on the first day due to poverty and squalor I couldn't begin to imagine , but rolled up her sleeves and gave it her best. There are literally thousands of young people doing such things all over the world during their gap year. The demand for tall ship's places is always high. If we think that modern youth lacks a sense of adventure we should look at ourselves - after all we're the generation that should be inspiring them.

 

[ccscott49]

It's the inner cities which breed the don't care/lets trash it attitude and thats our fault, the parents and the system. Some will never make anything of themselves, but look at the parents and you can see why, living off the government and don't want work, but there again where is the work? Not in the frozen north, no production, no jobs, no interest! I could go on, but I think we all know already. Some will achieve no matter what, some will acxhieve given the chance and some will never achieve evenm given the chance, because it might mean working for it, after all my Dad/Mum doesn't work, much easier to steal it or...........Whatever.

 

[Robin2]

Anyone who considers inner cities the source of problems should read a wondeful story by Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingstone Seagull author) called "Anywhere is OK" in a book of short stories called "A Gift of Wings". (This is my favourite book!)

I have a much simpler concept of hero as someone a person would like to emulate. In that context heroes can be much simpler beings and can include achievements (such as writing, or music, or boat design) that do not involve personal risk.

 

[jimi]

Do'nt think its the inner cities as such, many of my early heroes were out of inner city Glasgow, the mountaineers of the Creagh Dhu. And on the other hand many of the rudest most ignorant people I've met are a product of the English class system. I believe that much of it is the ethos imbided from parents and peers at an early age with respect for others , a sense of responsibility and self motivation developed at an early age. Easy access to the Opiums of the modern age i.e endless TV,computer games,drugs & alchohol all too easily fill people's time & sap their energy.

 

[ccscott49]

As I said, a product of their parents and the system, but there are more yobbos per square kilometer in the cities, higher people density aswell mind. But I still feel the country tends to breed a different type, maybe being brought up closer to nature, I don't know. Also kids brought up in the boating type comunity tend to be a bit different, probably due to seeing more of that type of life, it's a complex subject, I think I'll keep my nose out of it now!