Hero Essay: The Hero Of Aung San Suu Kyi

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones” – George R Martin

Daughter of General Aung San (who is known as Father of Nation for leading the Burmese people to independence) -- Aung San Suu Kyi, is not an ordinary woman like you and I. The eagerness to improve her mother country is in her blood. She is a woman who dreamt of having a democratic Burma. She did everything within her power to ensure that her dreams will one day come true. She became the voice of the Burmese people to fight against the military rule through non-violent activism and peaceful resistance. In the process of doing so, she had to endure house arrest and separation from

She held no regrets of devoting herself to her people. In spite of having received large amount of money and was living on the brink of poverty, she did not use the money to buy luxurious house or a brand-named car to enrich her lifestyle; but, she used it for the benefits of her people. She cares more for a healthy and educated country more than enriching her own lifestyle. She puts the needs of her own people before hers happily and voluntarily without expecting for anything in return. Her strong willpower is even more evident when despite of having all the harassment from the government hoping that by doing so will helps in ruining her image turns out to be only made her to try harder in her efforts of bringing down the one-party system. Not only that, they also constantly place her under house arrest to stop her from going against them. Nevertheless, the second she was release from the house arrest, she wasted no time in returning to what she was doing and spreading the hope to her people of having the multiparty democracy. Her selflessness is even more evident when she had in total spent 21 years away from England and her family either in detention or fear of leaving and not be able to come back. She was not with her family when her family need her the most. Her love for her people managed to overcome her love for her family. She believed that what she did was right as her family lived under a better circumstance that

In order to achieve your goals, you will have to let go of another thing. As for Suu Kyi, she gave up everything that was her world in order to make sure that her dream of making the world a better place for the Burmese come true. Back in 1999 when her husband was dying, she was not there for him and their sons as fear of not able to come back to Burma. Her sons had to grow up without the presence of a mother. Yet, whenever she looks back upon the incidents she doesn’t regret it at all. Even though she doesn’t feel good about it, she confidently said that “…but on the other hand I think that in the end one decides what one's priorities are, and one lives with one's