Vladimir Pejovic

My Hero would have to be the United Nations because they always try to help out the world and try to solve everything without war, because wars a BUMMER AND THE WORLD DOESN'T NEED IT!!! :) :) :) My Hero as a person would probably be Nelson Mandela, because After all he struggled for, fought for, I really do look up to him, because he kept on going what he loved, through jail and all, to stop racism and the apartheid in Africa. Jackie Chan - Why? Because he shows that through life you can still have a smile and laugh even if the world is falling around you. Roberto Benigini - Same thing, director and actor from the film La Vita e Bella. Geeze, its an inspiration! I mean, how could anyone really, if you think about it, be able to dance in front of a soldier having a sub-machine gun behind you, just to make your son laugh one last time before you die. Not many in this world of ours could do an act of such grace as that :)----------------------------------- My favourite poem. It explains similar values to mine, and is one for me of an inspiration. Here it is:

[IF]


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling