So, what are we striving for? Honestly, deep within me, I feel myself part of a total human evolution. It is my task to get my children strong and independent. That in order that they again can do the same with their children. And all that in a continuous evolution of improvement and growth. And human kind is striving for what? Maybe to get back to the lost paradise, where only relentless, continuous happiness is felt?

So I really do not know, unless I feel this hunger for happiness combined with a survival, not of myself, but of my children and my children’s children. Is this not universal for us all?

Difficult question with - I am afraid - no answer possible. If you have the answer, then probably you are not living or not human (or both). :)

Are we living to be happy? I do not think so. There is an urge within us towards the pursuit of happiness. And I feel that urge most helpful, because it helps me to pursue happiness and not wealth or status or other trivial items. The pursuit of happiness seems to me some guarantee that I do not become selfish, or lazy or jealous or some other nasty behavior. Because the pursuit of happiness has something natural that keeps us away from our weak human side.

It is difficult to express what you feel. And looking up to a hero or admire a person is, of course, a matter of the heart and only later one we can try to explain by mind. Probably, that is the reason for my poor expression-power in this.

So, it is not that we adimre balance only from within. On the contrary: we admire people that can handle the storm within ourself ánd the storm around us. We admire people that keep their focus and their human thinking on difficult circumstances; and difficult circumstances are matters of our own thinking and handling, mostly combined with difficult cirmcustances in the environment.

Do we not all admire the mother, who protects her child, even with danger for her own life, but does this in a silent and almost 'normal and natural' way? We admire because we know she is doing this conscient and awake and knowing all consequences.

Do we not admire the man, who expresses his opinion against all others but does this in a argumented and respectfull way without hurting others but also without loosing ground?

But again, words are words and not feelings ... :)

I go with Mary, but with some other words.

I have strong feelings and admiration for people who handle fair and balanced. 'Fair' is maybe a weak word, but for me it means that you are capable on an 'enlightened way' to handle, advise, talk together and with others.
Fair means that you are able to consider your smallest handling or activity on rightness to others.
Fair means that you are able to weigh all your words, even the 'small ones', in order to tell always the truth. But also in that way that words are no swords.
Fair means that in all you do and think are capable to understand that you are one out of many.

And of course, I have admiration for this as I am far away of this level.

You are correct that language (and communication as such) is limiting. That is one of the burdens of humankind . __But, back to our hero. In the concept hero, the time-aspect is for me disturbing. I do not like the concept of a hero, who is our a hero or - when doing 'wrong things' - is a 'fallen hero'. Again, in our language you are a hero or you are not. But a hero indicates a person and not his actions. A hero is always - every minute, every day - a hero or he is not at all a hero.__I strongly believe that we altogether have to push/help/protect/stimulate each other to go further then we think is possible. But in the same time we have to accept that we are humans with weaknesses and also respect this. __So sometimes you are a hero and sometimes not. As human we have to look to other people, respect their 'heroic actions' and understand the efforts they are making for this. And understand that these efforts are so hard that on other moments, other situations there is no strenght anymore to keep the heroic attitude. __So a hero - in my feeling of language - is not existing. Maybe we should then better talk about heroic actions by humankind iso heroes.

I do not like te concept of hero.

Maybe someone can be extra-ordinary or special. And maybe I even can admire some person for his thinking or initiative or for some other reason. But also the persons, that I deeply respect (and as such admire) are humans and not Superman / Spider or hero.

I do not like the concept hero because it is for me an easy get-away :" Do not expect challenging behaviour from me because I am not a hero. He is a hero, ask him to do special things".

So I prefer to look at persons in a realistic way. If I can compare the actions of other 'normal' people with my behaviour, I can better imagine the power and strength that they need to do what they do. This makes me at one side more respectfull for their accomplishments and at the other side it stimulates me to improve, to become better.

So, that why I do not like the concept of hero. I call it also a concept, because it is an oversimplification of the reality. There is no DNA for heros. There are only persons, that try to do the good thing.