成敗論英雄 A Hero with Success
Can we say that whether a person can be deemed a hero or a loser is merely on the basis of the success or failure of his endeavors? 難道一個人是英雄還是失敗者，只是取決於他努力的成敗嗎？
     Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” Heroism is the consistent social construct that all may interpret it that it should be successful. However, perhaps, the definition of a hero comes not from the virtues of man, but the flaws. While, in our society, heroes today are often seen as perfect individuals. Someone who is heroic often has the ability to act on his dreams and follow his commitments. Simply put, a hero always takes perseverance and tenacity (韌性) in order to reach for his dreams and achieve his goals. A hero must also have the good sense and intelligence to be able to overcome his own imperfections or weaknesses. In fact, there are many people who may not have found success, even after continuous failures and heartbreaks, but their desires to be the best is what makes them real heroes! In other words, success is often attributed to preparation, luck, hard work, and even the abundance of lots of failures.
Steve Jobs is a good example to be the hero with failures. He was a beginner having achieved everything, but fired from his own company at last. He was a college dropout who did a course on calligraphy, and used this skill to build Macintosh a decade later. But at that time of 30, he had no job. He lost the school learning and his company. The truth is that he didn’t lose hope, and continued to live life by the day even after getting diagnosed with a deadly pancreatic cancer (胰臟癌). He is the real hero. Every time when we celebrate success, we all talk of the good things we did. On the contrary, the fact is that all the things that we messed up (搞亂), ultimately, lead to our success. By listening to / observing / hearing to stories of people who failed miserably, had the tenacity to emerge from their failures, and the perseverance to make it bigger, we know that they are the real life heroes. Therefore, we should be proud to say that we did fail, but that leads us to the so called success!
古人不以成敗論英雄。古人看一個人是不是英雄，只論順逆，不論成敗！所以，在混亂的環境中，堅守正道的人，不一定成功，也不一定失敗，各人成敗，只是榮辱境遇的一環。因此，英雄所該堅持的，是不論在如何惡劣的環境下，仍能堅守原則，不變初衷。一個人在世，能否成功，其實是與當時的環境有關的，如果適逢有正見的正人君子多，那麼，堅守正道去成就功業，就容易得多。但是，如果遇到小人當道的世界，將無可避免的要與小人作對，想要成就功業，便相對的困難。這世界是無常的，無論多大的名利，終將化為虛有，唯有堅守志節的聖賢達哲，其精神與日月同存，其清名永垂不朽，才算是真正的英雄。
     英雄，在我們的心目中，猶如一座高聳的大山，他堅實牢固，穩穩地立著，被我們視為鼓舞的動力。《老人與海》中的那個老人，是真正的英雄。他走向大海，用堅定地信念，和非凡的勇氣，與碩大的馬林魚對抗，跟兇猛的鯊魚血拚。他用自己渾身解數的力量，來保護他捕獲的馬林魚，但終究不敵鯊魚的吞噬，歸途中，他只帶回魚骨頭。半夜過後，他回到海港，放下漁具，慢悠悠地走回他那破舊的茅草屋，躺上簡陋卻異常溫暖的床，和小男孩相伴，漸漸進入夢鄉。老人沒有沮喪，也沒有悲嘆，他沒有去收拾殘局，只任由海潮，吹打那雪白的魚骨。漸漸地，他進入夢鄉，夢見了獅子，夢見了昔日的童年，也彷彿找到了他勇敢的自己。這位老人，無疑是失敗者，可是，他的失敗，卻比成功更加令人讚嘆。他付出了，拼搏了，竭盡了他的全力。他的成功，不是結果，而是堅毅。
     英雄，不僅僅是成功，而是貴在付出，雖然結果是失敗者，但真正的英雄，卻是名傳青史的。在日常生活中，我們每一個人都想追求成功，但如果我們只是拿到了一個憑空的成功，卻沒有經歷事情的每一個細節，那都不算是真正的成功。每一件事，都有它的成與敗，也只有我們認真地體會事情中的每時每刻，從中感悟、領會，在過程中，親身嘗試過一個個精彩的瞬間，那才可貴，才算是成功。

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