Thai Life Insurance Ad: Unsung Hero

[LiberalArkie]

Apr 3, 2014

[lamp_shade]

1. Beautiful.

[HeartsCanHope]

2. Thank you. I love this ad! I have it bookmarked and play it whenever I feel discouraged.

There ARE good people left in this world who go about quietly doing the right thing every day. That's what keeps me going. May the unsung heroes prevail! Thanks again for your lovely post!

[nuxvomica]

3. We should all be heroes

It should be the normal state for adults. We all have this primordial impulse but don't always act on it so myth and literature have been guiding us there for millennia. The heroic act involves sacrifice without reciprocal reward; it is non-transactional. But we need to follow this impulse because those who don't are actually worse off for it. They become over-aged children, driven only by their fears and appetites, who never feel completely safe or satisfied. While the hero exhibits the qualities of innocence -- honesty, playfulness, and wonder -- the non-heroic promote the qualities of corruption: sham, drudgery and fear. In the ad, the man does what he can to follow the singular duty of the hero: transform the world, or even a small part of it, into a safer place for the innocent. It seems to make him happy. Why? Because his life has real meaning, something you can't buy, steal, or inherit.

[Karadeniz]

4. Perfect !!!